The Wolves won the league championships in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2008. Their first season was 1994–95. One NCAA Division I college football team plays in the Chicago area — the Northwestern Wildcats, in nearby Evanston. Chicago-area college basketball teams competing at the Division I level are the Northwestern Wildcats, the DePaul Blue Demons, the Loyola Ramblers, the UIC Flames, and the Chicago State Cougars. Minor league baseball teams that play near Chicago include the Kane County Cougars, the Windy City ThunderBolts, the Schaumburg Boomers, the Joliet Slammers, the Gary SouthShore RailCats, and the Chicago Dogs. The Chicago Bandits, a women's professional softball team, play their home games at Rosemont Stadium. The Chicago Mustangs of the Major Arena Soccer League play at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates. The Windy City Bulls are an NBA G League team affiliated with the Chicago Bulls. They play their home games at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates. The city is home to several roller derby leagues, including the Windy City Rollers and the Chicago Outfit. The Chicago Swans are the Australian rules football club in the city, competing in the Mid American Australian Football League. Rugby teams in the city include the Chicago Lions and the Chicago Griffins. There are two facilities for auto racing near Chicago, both of them in Joliet. Chicagoland Speedway hosts NASCAR races, and the Route 66 Raceway is the site of drag racing events. Once a year in early autumn, thousands of long-distance runners from around the world compete in the Chicago Marathon. In most of the U.S., softball is played with a 12-inch ball, but in Chicago 16-inch softball is more popular. Chicago hosted the 1959 Pan American Games, and Gay Games VII in 2006. The city made an unsuccessful bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, though it was heavily favored. Visual arts Chicago is home to a lively fine arts community. A high concentration of contemporary art galleries can be found in the River North and West Loop neighborhoods, though a great amount of arts activity also centers around Ukrainian Village. Chicago visual art has had a strong individualistic streak, little influenced by outside fashions. "One of the unique characteristics of Chicago," said Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts curator Bob Cozzolino, "is there's always been a very pronounced effort to not be derivative, to not follow the status quo", and arts pioneers such as Stanislav