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Mike Ditka is back in Chicago, not in hospice care, family says: Sneed exclusive

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The coach is back!

Legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka, the tough nut football legend who survived a stroke, heart attack, and subsequent convalescence in Florida for the past few years, is back home.

And the legendary coach has got plenty to say.

“I’m finally home! This city is my home. I love it,” bellowed the coach in an exclusive interview with Sneed Monday after quietly slipping into town “a few days ago.”

“I was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Pittsburgh, but Chicago is my home … and it is my life,” he said.