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A professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. We are currently members of the Northern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL) and the current National Football Conference Champions. We have won nine American Football championships (eight NFL Championships and Super Bowl XX) trailing only the Green Bay Packers, who have twelve. We have the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame with twenty-six members.

The club was founded in Decatur, Illinois in 1919 and moved to Chicago in 1921. From 1971 to the present, save for the 2002 season, the team has played its home games at Soldier Field here in our beloved city of Chicago. Our stadium is located next to Lake Michigan and was recently remodeled in a controversial modernization that has attempted to bring stadium amenities expected by today's fans to a historic Chicago building. The team also has a fierce, long-standing rivalry with the Packers, with whom we have played over one hundred seventy games.

Originally called the Decatur Staleys, the club was established by the A. E. Staley Company of Decatur, Illinois in 1919 as a company team, the typical start for several of the early professional football franchises. The company hired George Halas and Edward "Dutch" Sternaman in 1920 to run the team and turned full control of the team over to them in 1921.

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