If you could take a time machine back to January of 2015, you’d find the Chicago Blackhawks were the talk of the town in the midst of a great run of success in one of the best sports cities in America. However, over the past five seasons, a new belle of the ball has emerged on the Chicago sports scene – one who had been long relegated to “lovable, but unimpressive stepsister.”
Granted, the Chicago Cubs weren’t the ugly stepsister, but they had to struggle for loyalty and love while splitting their billing in baseball with their counterparts on the South Side.