The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.

They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

The team is legally and corporately registered as Chicago Bears Football Club, Incorporated.

The Bears have won nine Professional American Football league championships (eight NFL Championships and Super Bowl XX), trailing only the Green Bay Packers, who have twelve.

With the exception of the 2002 season, they have played their home games at Chicago's Soldier Field every year since 1971.

Walter Payton won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award in the 1977--78 season. Payton would go on to eclipse Jim Brown's NFL career rushing record in 1984 before retiring in 1987, and would hold the mark until 2002, when Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys surpassed it. Payton's career and great personality would capture the hearts of Bear fans, who called him "Sweetness".

The idea of a cheerleading squad was thought up by George Halas himself, who called them "dancing girls". Halas was quoted as saying that the Honey Bears would be around as long as he was alive. After his death in 1983, his heirs in the McCaskey family decided to end their relationship with the Honey Bears, declining to renew their contract following the Bears' championship season of 1985.

Lovie Smith accomplished his first objective as the team's head coach by sweeping the Green Bay Packers during the 2005 season. Lovie Smith, hired by the franchise on January 15, 2004, is the third and current (as of 2007) post-Ditka head coach for the Chicago Bears.

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