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The '''University of Illinois at Chicago''', or "'''UIC'''", Flames compete as members of the [[Horizon League]] in [[NCAA Division I]] basketball.  The school has not sponsored football since 1974.  Illinois-Chicago, previously known as "Navy Pier" and "Illinois-Chicago Circle", is a public institution located in downtown Chicago, Illinois.  The school has an undergraduate enrollment of around 15,000.  UIC's teams were previously known as the "Chikas," for the Chickasaw tribe, but this was changed in the mid-1970s for sensitivity reasons.

The campus is located in Chicago's West Side, occupying two separate areas. One, the main campus, is nestled into the southwest corner of the intersection of I-90/94 and I-290, at the Circle interchange which gave the school its former name. Multiple exits off both freeways in the vicinity give essentially direct access to the campus. That portion of campus stretches west to Racine Avenue and south to Roosevelt Road. A half-mile to the west, combined with Rush University Medical Center, is the West campus, bounded by I-290 and Roosevelt Road just as the main campus is but between Ashland Avenue and Ogden Avenue. UIC Pavilion () is located at the corner of Racine Avenue and Harrison Street, adjacent to I-290.

UIC's main rivals are [[Loyola (IL)]] and [[Chicago State]], crosstown enemies with whom they've long been associated. They've also had a fairly long-term enmity with [[Wisconsin-Milwaukee]], and things can get tense with [[Wright State]] as well.

None of the players from UIC's short foray into football reached the NFL, and the only Flame to reach the NBA was Sherrell Ford, who played 28 games for Seattle in 1996.
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=='''Conference Affiliations'''==
===Football===
{| class="wikitable zebra" style="width: 600px;"
|no team
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|1974-present
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|[[NAIA Football Independents|NAIA Independents]]
|NAIA
|1965-1973
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|two-year college
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|1950-1964
|}
===Basketball===
{| class="wikitable zebra" style="width: 600px;"
|[[{{horizon}}]]
|NCAA I
|2001-present
|-
|[[{{horizon}}|Midwestern Collegiate Conference]]
|NCAA I
|1994-2001
|-
|[[{{midcon}}|Mid-Continent Conference]]
|NCAA I
|1984-1994
|-
|[[{{d1ind}}]]
|NCAA I
|1981-1984
|-
|[[NAIA Basketball Independents|NAIA Independents]]
|NAIA
|1980-1981
|-
|[[{{chicac}}]]
|NAIA
|1973-1980
|-
|[[NAIA Basketball Independents|NAIA Independents]]
|NAIA
|1965-1972
|-
|two-year college
| 
|1947-1965
|}
'''Note''': UIC was never a ''junior'' college in the Associate's Degree-granting sense, but until 1965 students were required to transfer after their sophomore year. (Such transfers to [[Illinois]] were automatically granted.) As such, their competition prior to 1965 still meets the criteria for junior college play and thus outside the scope of this wiki.
=='''Post-Season Appearances'''==
===Football===
Illinois-Chicago never received a post-season invitation in football.
===Basketball===
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|{{d1mt}}
|[[1998 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament|1998]], [[2002 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament|2002]], [[2004 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament|2004]]
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|[[2003 National Invitation Tournament|2003]]
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|[[CollegeInsider.com Tournament]]
|[[2013 CollegeInsider.com Tournament|2013]]
|}

=='''Championships'''==
===Football===
Illinois-Chicago never won a championship of any kind in football.
===Basketball===
{| class="wikitable zebra" style="width: 600px;"
|[[{{horizon}}]] Tournament Champions
|[[2002 Horizon League Men's Basketball|2002]], [[2004 Horizon League Men's Basketball|2004]]
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|[[{{horizon}}|Midwestern Collegiate Conference]] Regular Season Champions
|''[[1998 Midwestern Collegiate Conference Men's Basketball|1998]]''
|-
|[[{{midcon}}|Mid-Continent Conference]] Regular Season Champions
|[[1984 Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball|1984]]
|}
=='''National Individual Awards'''==
===Football===
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===Basketball===
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=='''External Links'''==
[http://www.uicflames.com/ University of Illinois at Chicago Athletics]
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