BRACKET FLAMES: Loyola-Chicago with real chance to blow through the field
Stormy, husky, brawling City of Big Shoulders Chicago, as Carl Sanburg so eloquently described in his classic poem of the same name, is an enduring place. Tough, resilient and leathery, its citizens, hardened by blood-thickening winters and elbow grease applied to fueling smokestacks during its industrial past, are blue-collar rugged with a twist of affability. […]