But some people might say that the biggest sport of all in Chicago - and Illinois - is politics.

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So Benjamin Hooks enrolled at DePaul University in Chicago,Illinois, where he earned a law degree in nineteen forty-eight.

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The artist known as Mister Imagination was born Gregory Warmack in nineteen forty-eight in Chicago,Illinois.

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At the Chicago Botanic Garden in Illinois, workers plant twenty-nine thousand tulip bulbs every fall.

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In nineteen sixty-eight, Eunice Shriver organized the first Special Olympics in Chicago,Illinois.

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Jack Benny was born in Chicago,Illinois, on February fourteenth, eighteen ninety-four.

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Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park,Illinois,near Chicago, in eighteen ninety-nine.

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In nineteen fifty-five, the Lederers moved to Chicago,Illinois.

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