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World Series
Boston Red Sox defeats Chicago Cubs to win the 1918 World Series by 4 games to 2 -
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Sports in chicago
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The “Black Sox” scandal
several members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to deliberately lose the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The “Black Sox” scandal besmirched baseball's hard-won image as an honest sport -
nfl
rise of the National Football League.George Halas found his way into industrial-league football and then played for the University of Illinois. the bears were originally knownas the "stales " -
bears
n 1924 the Bears claimed the Championship after defeating the Cleveland Bulldogs on December 7, even putting the title "World's Champions" on their 1924 team photo. But the NFL had ruled that games after November 30 did not count towards league standings, and the Bears had to settle for second place behind Cleveland -
Chicago Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), strated in 1926, and are one of the "Original Six", teams of the National Hockey League (NHL), have won four Stanley Cups. -
Chicago Stadium
became an important boxing venue, hosting many major championship bouts. -
boxing
boxing was legalized in 1926, upon which the Illinois Boxing Commission was organized
