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Two Chicago-based companies — Horween Leather and Wilson Sporting Goods — have been making footballs since the 1940s. Their footballs are used in the Super Bowl.
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Cow hides are piled up Jan. 31, 2017, at the beginning of the leather-making process at the Horween Leather tannery in Chicago. 
