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Hub Arkush: As Bears struggle on ground, Chicago's favorite sons key NFC champ 49ers' run game

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MIAMI — The San Francisco 49ers' connections to Chicago and the Bears run a lot deeper than Robbie Gould, Jimmy Garoppolo and Jimmie Ward.

While Chicago Public League high schools make up one of the great basketball factories in the country, they don’t produce a ton of top football talent— let alone NFL players.

San Francisco’s left guard, Laken Tomlinson grew up in the same Rogers Park neighborhood I did – obviously a few decades earlier – and rode the ‘L’ and busses to Lane Tech in high school.