At last, Chicago has its own hometown hero to bring title back to that same old place
by Sam Fels from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#5QF1C)
As big of a sports town as Chicago is, we've never really had the hometown kid lead a team to glory. Dick Butkus was about as close as we got, and that was 60 years ago. Isiah Thomas and Dwyane Wade ended up being rivals of Chicago, even though they're from here. By the time Wade became a Bull, he was basically here...