Chicago Sports Clubs

Chicago is a huge sports town, with two pro baseball teams, and NFL, NHL and NBA teams. Whether you are in town visiting friends or relatives or on a business trip, no matter what time of year you are in the Windy City, you will have the opportunity to take in a game played by some of America's most storied sports clubs.

  1. Baseball

    • Chicago's to pro ball clubs--the Cubs and the Sox--have one of the fiercest rivalries in Major League Baseball. Fans are deeply divided by their allegiance to the lovable North Siders or the powerful South Siders. The Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908, but that doesn't matter to Cubs fans--Wrigley Field is packed from the season's start. The White Sox, however, brought home to U.S. Cellular Field the World Series trophy--and paraded it around the city and the state of Illinois--in 2005. This only made the crosstown rivalry stronger.

    Football

    • The Chicago Bears, who may be best known across the country for the '85 Super Bowl winning team's "Super Bowl Shuffle," are the favorites as far as gridders go in Chicago. The Bears and their fans' biggest rivals are the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Packers, as many people from Wisconsin commute to or move to Chicago, making each other easy targets. The Bears' home, Soldier Field, also was once used for the city's soccer team, the Chicago Fire.

    Basketball

    • The Chicago Bulls have been a team to watch ever since the 1990s, when Michael Jordan, No. 23, played for the team that won three back-to-back national championship titles. The Bulls' home on the West Side of Chicago now is called the United Center, but it once was the Chicago Stadium. The Bulls also have an acclaimed dance squad--the Lovabulls--who help keep the crowd entertained.

    Hockey

    • The Chicago Blackhawks were the laughingstock of the NHL for years, until Rocky Wirtz took the team over after his father, Bill, died in 2007. In three years, Rocky pulled the team from TV blackout (a mandate from his father), which brought the team more publicity and brought fans back to the Madhouse on Madison, aka the United Center, also home to the Bulls. In 2010, the Hawks brought home the first Stanley Cup Chicago had seen in 59 years.