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

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Richard J. Daley led Chicago - ruled might be a better word - for 21 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Last month,the organization, based in Chicago,Illinois, told twenty-four people that they had been chosen for the yearly fellowship award.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

She exhibited her art in Chicago, only to lose them all in the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Visitors find it much easier to take a popular bus tour and see Barack Obama's best-liked places around Chicago.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

On January 4th, the president-elect left his house in Chicago to join his family in Washington and prepare to take office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

President-elect Obama has chosen the chief executive officer of the Chicago schools, Arne Duncan, to become his education secretary.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

They worked in the lumber camps of Michigan and in the stockyards and the meat-packing plants of Chicago.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

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

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Then everything she had was destroyed again -- this time, in the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says Chicago had 510 murders last year - the first increase since 2003.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

They worked in the lumber camps of Michigan and in the stockyards and meat-packing plants of Chicago.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

In baseball, Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect game on July twenty-third.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

A ticket to ride the train from Chicago to Seattle,Washington was fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

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

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Some of the wealthiest people in Chicago live in the high-rise buildings along the lakeshore.

VOA: special.2011.04.25

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

VOA: special.2009.02.03

He was a member of the University of Chicago championship basketball team in nineteen-oh-nine.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Chicago was called Hog Butcher for the World because of its huge meat-processing industry.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Her TV talk show was first seen locally in Chicago in nineteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

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

VOA: special.2009.08.23