The Chicago Bruins were an American basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Chicago Bears football team owner George Halas (with fellow NFL team owner Charles Bidwill from the Chicago Cardinals also being involved as well, at least originally), the Bruins were a member of the American Basketball League, a league that also featured other National Football League team owners and run by NFL President Joseph Carr. Among the team's players were Bears quarterback Laurie Walquist and future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Nat Holman.

The team later played in the National Basketball League (1939–1942) and World Professional Basketball Tournament. There is a misconception that the team that was the Chicago Bruins ended up becoming the Chicago Studebaker Flyers, with a further misconception that the Chicago franchise soon afterward became the Cleveland Chase Brassmen and Cleveland Allmen Transfers, with the latter team later becoming the Syracuse Nationals, who currently exist as the Philadelphia 76ers of the present-day National Basketball Association.