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The Chicago Carnage are a professional inline hockey team based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The Carnage were founded in 2000 under the team name, Maximum Carnage, and played in all major and local tournaments. They joined Major League Roller Hockey in 2009 and have also played in the AIHL for one season before returning to the MLRH. The Carnage play all their home games at the Salt Creek Sports Center, formarly known as Hat Trick Hockey in Palatine Illinois. The Carnage was the first new franchise to the MLRH in 2009 after the fall of the Chicago Roller Snakes. Owner and GM Kenny Van Sky had played for the Chicago Roller Snakes prior to their shutting down.
They played their first event in Grand Rapids Michigan in 2009 against the Grand Rapid Reapers.
Some players of note include: Pat Lee, Ronny Greene, Bryan Birman, Peter Mazzara, Andrew Corvo,
Chicago (i/ʃᵻˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃᵻˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the busiest airport in the world when measured by aircraft traffic; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways and rail road freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.As of 2014, Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States at US$610.5 billion.