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Does Chicago ever need what the Bears are giving the city right now.

Nothing unifies Chicago more than the Bears. Chicagoans disagree with one another on many things — including, of course, their baseball allegiances — but there’s little if any dissent about our football team. Many of us live and die with them, and the rest of us are happier when they’re succeeding and bummed out when they’re not.

So what a gift in this year of extreme discontent in Chicago that the Bears have defied all predictions and gone on a five-game winning streak. Under first-year head coach Ben Johnson, the team’s 9-3 record not only puts it in first place in the highly competitive NFC North but alone atop the entire conference. If the playoffs started today, your

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