MLS website writer Shane Murray stops by to take a look at the Fire's worst start in club history with a hopeful plea to stop the slide into irrelevance.
Since I began covering the Chicago Fire for MLSsoccer.com, I have been witness to a record-breaking spell in the club's existence.
Season after season, this proud, storied club has found new ways to improve on the statistics of the previous campaign and stake a claim for a place in the history books.
However, as any battle weary Fire fan knows only too well, the records I speak of are not ones to be proud of: most ties, 18, in an MLS season in 2014; 30 games and counting without a win on the road from 2014 to the present; and now 10 games into the Veljko Paunovic era, the club sits on seven points, the club's lowest return after 10 games since their winning MLS debut 19 years ago.