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Major professional teams; Club Sport League Founded Note Chicago Cubs: Baseball: Major League Baseball: 1875 Chicago White Sox: Baseball Major League Baseball 1894 Based in Chicago since 1900 Chicago Bulls: Basketball: National Basketball Association: 1966 [1] Chicago Sky: Basketball Women's National Basketball Association: 2005 Chicago Bears ...
37 team members, 5 coaches, and 7 staff members were among the passengers killed as their plane hit the tree line and exploded during final approach to Tri-State Airport in Ceredo, West Virginia. The team was returning to campus after a game at East Carolina University. 13 October 1972: Old Christians Club: Rugby union: Uruguayan Air Force ...
United Express Flight 5925, operated by Great Lakes Airlines with a Beechcraft 1900 twin turboprop, was a regularly scheduled flight from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Quincy, Illinois, with an intermediate stop in Burlington, Iowa.
Tri-Cities Regional Airport, Blountville, Tennessee: Engine failure due to ice accumulation [68] Wendell Ladner: United States 1975 ABA basketball player Eastern Air Lines Flight 66: John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York Windshear Joseph LaMotta: United States 1998 Chef, son of Jake LaMotta: Swissair Flight 111
Chicago is one of eleven U.S. cities to have teams from the five major American professional team sports (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and soccer). Chicago has been named as the "Best Sports City" by Sporting News three times: 1993, 2006, and 2010. Chicago was a candidate city for the 2016 Summer Olympics but lost to Rio de Janeiro. [1]
O'Hara attended Parkview High School in Gwinnett County, Georgia, where he was a member of the school's Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC, a program that trains high school students for ...
American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe all 67 on board both aircraft died.
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Boeing 737-222: 2 16 18 † N/A Nigeria Airways 5N-ANA crash [171] 1 March 1978 Kano Airport, Nigeria Fokker F28: 2 271 273 † 2 American Airlines Flight 191 [172] 25 May 1979 Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S. McDonnell Douglas DC-10: 2 5 7 †, ‡ 4 Barra do Garças air disaster [173] 1 June 1980 Barra do Garças, Mato ...