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  An Overview of Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States and one of the country's leading industrial, commercial, transportation and financial centers.
The population of Chicago decreased from 3,005,072 in 1980 to 2,783,726 in 1990; the population was 2,802,079 in 1998.
Chicago is the center of a large metropolitan area spreading across three states, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the north to Gary, Indiana, in the southeast.
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 Chicago Apartments
Chicago.s unique culture is famous and a big draw for visitors; Chicago's architecture, historical sites and vibrant neighborhoods inspire and delight residents and visitors alike.
Chicago is also home to the state's famous sports teams: the Chicago Bears football team, Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, Chicago Bulls basketball team, Chicago Cubs and Chicago Whitesox baseball teams and the Chicago Fire soccer team.
Chicago is divided into three major sections by the Chicago River, known by locals as the North, West and South Sides.
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  Chicago Fire (soccer) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Chicago Fire is a professional soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois that participates in Major League Soccer.
Since 2001, the Fire and its chief rival FC Dallas (originally the Dallas Burn) play for the Brimstone Cup, which goes to the team that wins the season series between the two clubs.
The "Ring of Fire" was established in 2003 by the Chicago Fire and the Chicago Fire Alumni Association as permanent tribute to honor those who have made the Chicago Fire a proud and successful club over the course of its history.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Chicago_Fire_(soccer)   (611 words)

  
 Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States with a population of 2,896,016 (2000).
Chicago was granted a city charter by Illinois on March 4, 1837.
On the Great Chicago Fire star (on the 1917 flag): religion, education, esthetics, justice, beneficence, and civic pride.
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 History: Birth of pro football - Pro Football Hall of Fame
Thus pro football made its debut more than 100 years ago in comparatively obscure surroundings that could not possibly have provided the slightest clue to the world-wide popularity the sport would be destined to enjoy, particularly in the waning decades of pro football's first century.
The Allegheny football team, founded in 1890, and the Pittsburgh team, founded a year later, already were heated rivals when they met in the first of two games in the 1892 season and wound up in a 6-6 tie.
Adding fuel to the fire was the AAA claim that the PAC's top player and coach, William Kirschner, was a professional because, as a paid instructor for the PAC, his salary went up and his work load down during the football season.
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 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago was also founded in 1882, bringing sophistication to the forefront of Chicago's reputation.
The year 1959 brought great prospects for Chicago, when, in July at the Chicago International Trade Fair, Queen Elizabeth visited to mark the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway at the Navy Pier, an even that made Chicago one of the greatest seaports in the world.
Chicago is also known for its cultural arts, famed advertising agencies, and other pop culture greats that have contributed to the rich civilization of America.
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 Chicago Fire (football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chicago Fire was a football team in the short-lived World Football League for one season 1974.
Chicago was the first franchise to sign a player, wide receiver Jim Seymour, fullback Bill Booker, and the first to sign a "name" player, quarterback Virgil Carter.
Another Second City WFL team, 1975, the Chicago Winds replaced the Fire, though the team was evicted from the second WFL after five games.
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 Chicago Fire News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Chicago Fire emerged from a defensive battle against New England with a 1-0 victory in the first leg of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, courtesy of Justin Mapp's 35th-minute strike on Sunday at Toyota...
The Chicago Fire have yet to record a home-win against the New England Revolution this season, as Toyota Park has been advantageous for the Revs with a win and draw added to the books in Bridgeview.
The Chicago Fire already clinched a playoff spot and are now in search for home-field advantage in the Eastern Conference Semifinals as they host the Columbus Crew on Saturday night, who have already been...
www.topix.net /us-soccer/chicago-fire   (787 words)

  
 Chicago Fire Tickets at StubHub!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Fire have brought big-time soccer to Chicago, and even though the market is filled with professional teams, Chicago Fire tickets are popular sports tickets in the area.
Beginning this season, Chicago Fire tickets will be available for games at the new Bridgeview Stadium, a soccer-specific venue, making these MLS tickets as attractive as any soccer tickets on the market.
The Chicago Fire began play in 1998, and wasted no time in establishing a winning tradition, as the team captured the MLS Cup in their first season of play.
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 ChicagoSportsReview.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For those of you who missed it, and, judging by the size of the crowd, most of you did, the Chicago Fire won its home-and-home series against San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad) on Wednesday to advance to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup tournament.
The irony is that, of all the professional teams, the Fire and the Chicago Wolves are the only major professional teams to have won championships in the last five years.
Football, in contrast, has at least a half dozen ways that, on any given play, a team can be penalized five yards.
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 Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
The Fire persuaded veteran quarterback Virgil Carter to jump to the Wiffle, but Carter had missed the '73 season with a broken collarbone and there were questions about his health.
The Chicago roster was a patchwork of unknowns, old-timers and youngsters.
Chicago hurriedly signed Leroy Kelly, cut by the Oakland Raiders, who rushed just once for three yards as the Fire was buried by Memphis, 25-7.
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 Chicago Fire!
The Chicago Fire scored a dramatic 4-3 win over the Colorado Rapids tonight at Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to earn six points and first place in the MLS Spring Training Tournament.
CHICAGO (AP) — As Chicago Fire players consoled each other after their disappointing loss in the MLS Cup last fall, Hristo Stoitchkov slipped away from his teammates and headed for the fan section.
CHICAGO (Wednesday, February 7, 2001) -- Chicago Fire and Major League Soccer officials today announced that Bulgarian international Hristo Stoitchkov has signed a multiyear contract with the league and club.
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 Chicago's Soccer History
With the establishment of the National Soccer League of Chicago in 1920, the city's position as a major soccer region was secure; for decades, the NSL was one of the "big four" of the amateur leagues, with numerous teams winning the National Challenge Cup, as well as sending players to the national team.
In 1934, Julius Hjulian, of the Chicago Wonder Bolts was called to the National Team, and played for the US during their World Cup qualifying match, as well as their sole match of the 1934 Cup, a 1-7 trouncing at the hands of host Italy.
The Fire stunned the US soccer world by winning BOTH the MLS Cup AND the US Open Cup in 1998, their first year, a feat unequaled in US sports history, and have continued to be one of the more successful MLS teams, winning the US Open Cup again in 2000.
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 Chicago Football Guide: Information on the Chicago Bears, Soldier Field, Mike Ditka, and College football bars.
The towering Doric colonnades and imposing grandeur of the structure is reminiscent of a Roman coliseum or an ancient battleground of biblical proportions.
The Chicago Bears franchise made Soldier Field its home in September of 1971 and its seating capacity was reduced to 57,000 to improve seating for season ticket holders.
In cooperation with the city of Chicago and the Chicago Park District, the Bears transformed Soldier Field again in 2003 into the facility it is today.
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 Chicagoist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Chicago Marathon winner Robert K. Cheruiyot of Kenya was released from the hospital yesterday and participated in a championship ceremony and press conference.
Chicago has migrated several systems from Solaris-based servers to those running Red Hat, in a move that press releases say has already saved the city $250,000.
Chicago’s vehicle registration system is currently running Red Hat and is able to process 300% more vehicle registrations than under the old servers.
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 Chicago Attractions: Tourist Attractions in Chicago, IL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chicago's status as the business and entertainment capital of the Midwest means there's never a shortage of things to see and do.
Chicago's architects have been at the forefront of pioneering architectural design and technique, and the city is a living museum of historic and contemporary masterpieces - a permanent tribute to the work of greats such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Helmut Jahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan.
The Chicago Historical Society is a privately endowed, independent institution devoted to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and Illinois, as well as selected areas of American history, to the public through exhibitions, programs, research collections, and publications.
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 ChicagoSportsReview.com
The Fire had several chances to capitalize on in the opening minutes of the second half, but Nate Jaqua missed on a chance from five yards in front of the goal and Kelly Gray knocked a header over the goal from less than ten yards away to continue the Fire's offensive frustrations.
Chicago would pay dearly for not drawing closer as a pair of second half goals from Jabloteh midfielder Kerry Noray put the match out of reach at 5-1 midway through the stanza.
Second half Chicago substitutes Dipsy Selolwane and Justin Mapp were able to notch a late goal in the 87th minute when Selolwane, the team's leading scorer in the preseason, sent a cross in the path of Mapp, who fired off a first-time shot into the net to finish the scoring at 5-2.
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 Chicago Sun-Times :: Fire ::
Chicago's sports stars, sports characters and sports moments in the camera eye.
Chicago's original city guide is now part of the Sun-Times News Group.
Your source for pro sports, college football, and Chicago entertainment.
www.suntimes.com /sports/soccer/fire/index.html   (221 words)

  
 Half-Way Gone  Fire Update as the Team Completes 16 Games
The Chicago Fire is sitting in second place in the East after 16 games.
CHICAGO — The Chicago Fire’s season is at the halfway point.
But the Fire organization is not concerned about losing a number of players for up to a month.
www.chicagolandsoccernews.com /article.php?article_id=440   (600 words)

  
 RTA | Sporting Events
Chicago is also home to an IHL hockey team who play at the AllState Arena near O'Hare Airport.
Chicago's football history goes back to the 1930's and is played at the newly renovated Soldier Field located on the shore of Lake Michigan just south of downtown.  The season opens the first week of September and continues through the end of December.
Major League Soccer is a 10-team league in which each team plays a 30 regular-season league games per team.  The Chicago Fire plays in Chicago at the newly renovated Soldier Field beginning in April and it extends through the MLS Cup which is played in November.
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 Chicago Fire
In his four years with the Fire, Nowak has compiled a team-high 44 assists with 12 being game winners along with 23 goals for 90 points.
Earned MVP honors at MLS Cup '98, as Chicago captured its first championship and was Instrumental in helping Chicago capture two Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup titles in 1998 and 2000.
He renewed his contract with MLS and the Fire on 2-8-02… 2001: Nowak continued his great play as he became Chicago's 2001 Fire/Honda MVP finishing the season as the team's third-leading scorer, recording six goals and team-high 10 assists for 22 points in only 18 games played (all starts).
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 Buy your Chicago Fire shirt
The Chicago Fire are one of the USAs Major League Soccer franchises.
They were founded in 1997 and play their home games at Soldier Field a 61,500 seater stadium at 425 East McFetridge Drive, Chicago, Illinois which they currently share with the Chicago Bears NFL team.
Chicago Fire play their home games in red shirts with a white band around the middle and a white left sleeve, red shorts and socks.
www.football-shirts.co.uk /chicagofire-shirt.html   (161 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States with a population of 2,896,016 (2000).
Chicago was granted a city charter by Illinois on March 4, 1837.
On the Great Chicago Fire star (on the 1917 flag): religion, education, esthetics, justice, beneficence, and civic pride.
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 Was Daniel "Peg Leg" Sullivan the Real Culprit?
Third, it is unlikely that Sullivan, in his attempt to extinguish the fire and rescue the animals, would have had the time to run across the street to the barn without being injured by the flames.
The fire spread quickly, though, and Sullivan, realizing that his efforts were to no avail, abandoned these measures and turned instead to rescuing the trapped animals.
Two days later the fire was extinguished, but Sullivan needed only a fraction of that time to realize that he was responsible for leveling much of Chicago.
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 University of Chicago Hospitals: Explore Chicago
Chicago is one of the world's greatest cities.
In Chicago, you can experience everything from standing at the top of the nation's tallest skyscraper to spending a night in a club, listening to legendary blues musicians.
Centerstage Chicago: A Chicago city guide that provides information and reviews of music, theatre, films, events, dining, hotels, literature, festivals, and more.
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 Chicago, Illinois - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Chicago is surrounded by a vast array of smaller cities known as suburbs.
To this day, Billy Joel is declared a person nongrata in Chicago, and if he travels into the borders of Chicago, he will be promptly dropped from the Sears Tower, have his eyelid caught on a nail, land on a bicycle without a seat, and then have 281 pennies dropped on him.
While sleeping in the abandoned subways under Chicago in 1993, Oprah's water broke, and the massive wave of placenta juices flooded every basement in Chicago killing many garage bands, but they sucked, so nobody beyond the city limits cares.
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 Bowling to Vegas - The Route
Some believe that the tower is haunted by the ghost of a man who perished there during the fire.
This heroic worker stayed behind as the fire came closer, manning the pumps instead of fleeing for his life.
The first nuclear chain reaction was achieved under the stands of the University of Chicago's Football stands.
www.bowlingtovegas.com /route/chicago.htm   (222 words)

  
 Red Card - Chicago Sports - Blogs.
Unfortunately, this means that if Blanco does sign with the Fire in the next few days, his signing will be competing against the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.
The Fire continued to talk to Cuauhtemoc Blanco's representatives Tuesday, a source close to the negotiations told me. While nothing has been finalized as of Tuesday evening, I've been told a decision should be made this week.
Should the Fire sign Blanco, it would mark the first time the Fire had a marquee Mexican player on the roster since Jorge Campos's stint with Chicago in 1998.
blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com /soccer_redcard   (1194 words)

  
 Chicago Irish Northern Aid

Freedom, Justice, and Equality for a United Ireland
Paul Harkin is a native of Northern Ireland now living in Chicago with his wife, Cathy and two children, Ciaran and Declan.
Both of their two children were born in Chicago.
A Catholic family was forced to leave their home after it came under fire from loyalists for the second time in a week.
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 Chicago Storm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The former Chicago Sting and Fire forward spent the 2000 Major League Soccer season as an assistant coach with the Fire, helping the team to the MLS Cup Final (1-0 loss to Kansas City) and the team’s second Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup championship at Soldier Field.
A member of the Chicago Fire's radio and TV broadcast team for the last two MLS seasons, Kenn has also called soccer at three levels of the United Soccer Leagues (USL) system, including the A-League Game of the Week on Fox Sports World.
Chicago Storm COO and GM Brian Loftin announced that the team has come to terms with forward Elvir Kafedzic, midfielder Mariano Bollella and defender Randy Soderman through the 2008-09 season.
www.chicagostorm.net:16080 /news/?cat=15&id=370   (670 words)

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