High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chicago is the home of many professional sports teams and one of four U.S. cities to have teams from the five major American professional team sports (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer). The city was a candidate city for the 2016 Summer Olympics but lost to Rio de Janeiro. Upon the USOC reaching a new revenue sharing agreement with the IOC, Chicago has been mentioned as a potential candidate for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Chicago also hosted the 1959 Pan American Games. Chicago has been named as the Best Sports City by Sporting News three times in 1993, 2006, and 2010.