Chappel, an Alton High graduate who lives in Roxana, has been officiating high school basketball since 1982 and worked his last game in the gym known as The Big House on West Main in Carlinville.

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Sixty years of history will close in March with the end of the Big House era. In its final year, the place only a few state ...