The franchise has two NFL championships, both while it was based in Chicago.

As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.

The White Sox are one of two major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League.

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.

On TV shows based in Chicago such as The Bob Newhart Show, Married ... with Children, Family Matters, Still Standing, According to Jim, Early Edition and The Bernie Mac Show, the main characters are all Bears fans, and have worn Bears ' jerseys and t-shirts on some occasions.

Roseanne is another TV show based outside of Chicago to feature the Bears as the consensus household favorite. As ' Dan Connor ' John Goodman is seen wearing Bears hats.

In an episode of the Disney Channel show Shake It Up, based in Chicago, recurring character Dina Garcia ( Ainsley Bailey ) sold scalped Chicago Bears tickets.

The Cubs are one of the two remaining charter members of the National League ( the other being the Atlanta Braves ) and one of two active major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago White Sox of the American League.

Midtown Madness 2, a real life car driving simulation game is totally based on Chicago city.

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In 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, Thomas Edison introduced to the public two pioneering inventions based on this innovation ; the Kinetograph – the first practical moving picture camera – and the Kinetoscope.

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In 1930 Howard Hughes hired Hawks to direct Scarface, a gangster film loosely based on the life of Chicago mobster Al Capone.

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

In 1894 Dewey joined the newly founded University of Chicago ( 1894 – 1904 ) where he developed his belief in an empirically based theory of knowledge, becoming associated with the newly emerging Pragmatic philosophy.

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In recent years, Wertico has continued to tour and perform around the Chicago metropolitan area, where he is based.

The raid is often thought to have been related to Operation Sundevil, a nationwide investigation of computer crime ; however, Sundevil was based in Arizona and the Steve Jackson Raid was coordinated out of Chicago.

Organizations such as 8th Day Center for Justice, based out of Chicago, Illinois, use the concept in terms of social justice as well.

The Republican Party's production of campaign literature dwarfed the combined opposition ; a Chicago Tribune writer produced a pamphlet that detailed Lincoln's life, and sold 100, 000 to 200, 000 copies.

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

On 6 October 1942, a writer named Judith Cass had used the term " supermodel " for her article in the Chicago Tribune, which headlined " Super Models are Signed for Fashion Show ".

He needed a job to support himself while he worked on his doctorate and so applied to the Chicago Daily News, hoping that since he had already sold freelance pieces to the Daily News, including an article on the death of writer Brendan Behan, that he would be hired by editor Herman Kogan.

Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge, who hired Ebert as a reporter and feature writer at the Sun-Times in 1966.

* " Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon " ( song cycle by Chicago from their 1970 album Chicago II ; writer James Pankow misspelled the town name )

Black was born as Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge, Illinois, in suburban Chicago, the daughter of Elsie Mary ( née Reif ), a writer of several prize-winning children's novels, and Norman Arthur Ziegler.

Mircea Eliade (; – April 22, 1986 ) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.

Păunescu's visit to Chicago was followed by those of the nationalist official writer Eugen Barbu and by Eliade's friend Constantin Noica ( who had since been released from jail ).

" The name Wildcats was bestowed upon the university in 1924 by Wallace Abbey, a writer for the Chicago Daily Tribune who wrote that even in a loss to the University of Chicago, " Football players had not come down from Evanston ; wildcats would be a name better suited to Glenn Thistletwaite's boys.

Roth wrote in the preface to the book's 30th anniversary edition, " With clarity and with crudeness, and a great deal of exuberance, the embryonic writer who was me wrote these stories in his early 20's, while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, a soldier stationed in New Jersey and Washington, and a novice English instructor back at Chicago following his Army discharge ... In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan — about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success.

At that time a writer for the Chicago Sun-Times called Earle " a visionary symbol of the New Traditionalist movement in country music.

" The Chicago Tribune has called her " a miraculous writer.

*( Louis ) Studs Terkel ( May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008 ) — Chicago writer, journalist, DJ, and oral historian

Henneberger offered the job to Lovecraft, who declined, citing his reluctance to relocate to Chicago ; " think of the tragedy of such a move for an aged antiquarian ," the 34-year-old writer declared.

The character, sharing his name with the actor, is an aspiring writer living in Chicago who wants to write short stories.

In August 2006, the Sun-Times fired longtime Chicago Cubs beat writer Mike Kiley.

Paul Geisert was a biology teacher in Chicago in the 1960s, a professor in the 1970s, an entrepreneur and writer in the 1980s, and the co-developer of learning materials and a web site regarding teaching about religion in public schools in the 1990s.

David Edward Kelley ( born April 4, 1956 ) is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, and Harry's Law as well as several films.

Cooper stayed on the program until June 1936, when another Chicago writer, Arch Oboler, took over.

Judy Chicago is an American feminist artist and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces which examine the role of women in history and culture.

album title ", writes Greg Kot in The Chicago Tribune ( published September 11, 2001 ), " the myths, mysteries and folklore of the South as a backdrop for one of the finest roots rock albums ever made.

Carolina also traded a third round draft pick in the 2012 NFL draft to the Chicago Bears for TE Greg Olsen.

* Greg Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, Chicago 2004

* Greg Walker, former first baseman and hitting coach for the 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox, is a native of Douglas.

In 1994 / 1995 a comedy segment entitled " Rollie TV ", concerning a fictitious cable television channel devoted solely to the life of Rollie Fingers and helmed by a Rollie Fingers obsessed host named Greg Shuttlecock, aired once a week on The Steve Dahl Radio Show on WMVP AM1000 in Chicago.

Author, rock critic and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Kot and the Chicago Tribune named the band their 2008 Chicago " Band of the Year ", calling them " as good a rock band as any to call Chicago home in the last decade.

** Greg Maddux, Chicago Cubs ( NL )

** The Chicago Cubs, for Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux.

After the Braves acquired Greg Maddux from the Chicago Cubs in 1993, Glavine, Maddux, and Smoltz formed one of the best pitching rotations in baseball history.

* Greg Luzinski, OF, Philadelphia ( 1970 – 80 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1981 – 84 ), played in 141 games for Reading in 1970

His best known roles include Daniel Nyland on CBS's Chicago Hope, Greg Montgomery on ABC's Dharma & Greg, and Aaron Hotchner on CBS's Criminal Minds.

Gaylord " Greg " Focker ( Ben Stiller ) is a nurse living in Chicago.

Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune called it " insidiously snappy, [...] is shaping up as this year's " Macarena ".

Guidry's plaque in Monument Park ( Yankee Stadium ) | Monument Park. On August 7, 1984, Guidry struck out three batters ( Carlton Fisk, Tom Paciorek and Greg Luzinski ) on nine pitches in the ninth inning of a 7-0 win over the Chicago White Sox.

* Robert Mangiardi as Greg Turner, First Deputy of the Chicago police department, in charge of coordinating security arrangements for the war protest as well as handling the blocking off of city streets for the presidential motorcade.

* Greg Kot, " The man who survived the music wars ", Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2006.

Arguably, the WTO meeting and the Mardi Gras violence played a role in Schell's stunning loss to Greg Nickels and Mark Sidran in the 2001 mayoral primary election, as did Boeing's move of its headquarters to Chicago.

During a Sound Opinions interview broadcast on Chicago FM radio, Lanois told Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot that " Series of Dreams " was his pick for the opening track, but ultimately, the final decision was Dylan's.

" He ’ s always had a boyish enthusiasm for performing, and a flexible, naturally joyous voice that suggests a young Stevie Wonder ," wrote Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune, " but with his latest album, Saadiq finds a new gear.

* Greg Smith ( infielder ) ( born 1967 ), former infielder with the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers