Miss Illinois Teen USA

The Miss Illinois Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Illinois in the Miss Teen USA pageant. It is directed by Vanbros and Associates and is previously directed by D&D Productions from 2001 to 2014 before becoming part of Vanbros organization in 2014, headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas.
Illinois is in the top ten states in terms of number and value of placements over the thirty-seven years of the Miss Teen USA competition. Illinois ties with Florida for the most Miss Photogenic awards won at Miss Teen USA and has won more awards than any other state. Like the Miss USA Pageant, Illinois went on to win the Miss Teen USA title in the second edition of the pageant.
Three Illinois teens have competed at Miss USA, although none won the Miss Illinois USA title. The first was Cherise Haugen, Illinois' only Miss Teen USA, who competed as Miss Teen USA at the 1985 pageant. Later two more would compete at the Miss USA pageant, representing Vanbros states: Terri Bollinger represented Missouri in 1999 and Anne-Marie Dixon Oklahoma in 1998. Vanbros is a pageant production company that owns the Miss Teen USA franchises for, and produces and directs, several state pageants in the Midwest. The Miss Illinois Teen USA Pageant has been the single largest official state preliminary competition with over 150 contestants every year since at least 2002 and has always ranked among the top ten largest state preliminary pageants.
Victoria Blair Rhemrev of Chicago was crowned Miss Illinois Teen USA 2020 on September 2, 2019 at Braden Auditorium in Bloomington-Normal. She will represent Illinois for the title of Miss Teen USA 2020 on the spring of 2020.

Results summary

Placements

Miss Teen USA: Cherise Haugen
1st runners-up: Autumn Waterbury, Lexi Atkins
3rd runners-up: Kathleen McClellan, Kelly Cruse, Sydni Dion Bennett
Top 6: Anne-Marie Dixon
Top 10: Lisa Jessen, Nicole Manske
Top 12: Julee Kleffman
Top 15: Victoria Davis, Olivia Pura, A’Maiya Allen
Top 16: Alexandra Plotz

Illinois holds a record of 14 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

Miss Photogenic: Linda Burkholder, Lisa Jessen, Kathleen McClellan, Jennifer Pelock
Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2020	Victoria Blair Rhemrev	Long Grove	17	TBA	TBA	First Indonesian American Miss Illinois Teen USA
2019	A’Maiya Allen	Bolingbrook	18	Top 15
2018	Sydni Dion Bennett	Algonquin	16	3rd Runner-Up		First African American Miss Illinois Teen USA
2017	Olivia Bohleber	Carmi	18
2016	Olivia Pura	Deer Park	17	Top 15		Later Miss Illinois USA 2020
2015	Megan Riesner	Plainfield	18
2014	Miranda Fenzau	Chicago	17
2013	Grayson Hodgkiss	Downers Grove	16
2012	Alexandra Plotz	Geneva	17	Top 16		Later Miss Illinois USA 2019 and Miss Illinois World 2019 Top 25 semifinalist at Miss World America 2019.
2011	Paige Higgerson	Cutler	19
2010	Lexi Atkins	Champaign	18	1st runner-up		Later Miss Illinois USA 2014
2009	Stacie Juris	Tinley Park	18			Later Miss Illinois USA 2013; 2nd runner-up at Miss USA 2013.
2008	Nora Downs	Chicago	16
2007	Victoria Davis	Thawville	18	Top 15
2006	Ceitlyn Glenn	Effingham	17
2005	Kelly Cruse	Marion	17	3rd runner-up
2004	Brittany Acosta	Warrenville	16
2003	Tiffiney McCormick	Streator	18
2002	Lacey Wilson	Hinsdale	17			Later Miss Massachusetts USA 2010
2001	Brittany Richmond	Bristol	17
2000	Kimberly Williamson	Goodfield	18			Died on December 27, 2004
1999	Amber Dusak	Antioch	18
1998	Nicole Manske	Roscoe	18	Semi-finalist		ESPN personality and wife of Australian INDYCAR driver Ryan Briscoe.
1997	Autumn Waterbury	Marion	18	1st runner-up
1996	Eisa Istok	Elgin	18
1995	Anne-Marie Dixon	Highland	17	Top 6		Later Miss Oklahoma USA 1998
1994	Charlotte Martin	Chicago	17
1993	Jaime Lyn Holbrook	Chicago	16
1992	Julee Kleffman	Hoffman Estates	18	Semi-finalist
1991	Kara Kline	Champaign	15
1990	Terri Bollinger	Chicago	17			Later Miss Missouri USA 1999
1989	Kimberly Hannell	Chicago	17
1988	Kathleen McClellan	Bloomington	18	3rd runner-up	Miss Photogenic
1987	Danielle Reese	Riverwoods	17
1986	Dyann Lowery	Sandwich	17
1985	Lisa Jessen	Macomb	17	Semi-finalist	Miss Photogenic
1984	Cherise Haugen	Sleepy Hollow	17	Miss Teen USA 1984	Best State Costume	Non-finalist at Miss USA 1984
1983	Linda Burkholder	Chicago	18		Miss Photogenic

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

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Miss Illinois Teen USA

Results summary

Placements

Awards

Winners