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Originally Posted by SFBruin
When I was in Chicago, I thought that there were a lot of Michigan fans as well.
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Yeah, between michigan alums originally from chicagoland who come back home, and transplants from michigan, the wolverines might be #2 for college football after ND. The badgers are probably #3.
that said, outside of a handful of trendy northside neighborhoods over-run with big 10 grads, chicago is a
THOROUGHLY pro-sports town. college sports are a very distant second fiddle here, generally speaking.
if you polled chicagoans for their #1 football team, pro or college, i wouldn't be surprised if "da bears" beat out all other college teams
combined. ditto for the bulls in basketball.
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Originally Posted by SFBruin
I don't think I saw one U of I fan haha.
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Come back during basketball season. U of I has a decent fan base in chicago for b-ball. It's just that their football program has been a big 10 doormat for as long as I've been alive, so pretty much nobody cares about it.