SI Picks Blackhawks To Repeat As Stanley Cup Champions
Let's just hope there's no such thing as the "Sports Illustrated" curse.
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Let's just hope there's no such thing as the "Sports Illustrated" curse.
Lots of fans converged on Millennium Park on Wednesday for a chance to get their picture with the Stanley Cup.
If you want a picture with the Stanley Cup, you better act quickly.
"Some of these families are going through the very most difficult periods of their lives, and to get a little respite, a little sense of joy with something they probably wouldn't normally see – the Stanley Cup – it's wonderful," Ronald McDonald House CEO Doug Porter said.
To get back at the pop star, three Blackhawks fans - Chris Wilkerson, Mark Wegener and Josh Kaye - had their photo taken while standing on top of a giant cutout of Bieber's face at the team's fan convention last weekend.
County Line Orchard in Hobart is going with a Blackhawks theme for this year's corn maze.
The Stanley Cup drew a big crowd in southwest suburban Crestwood on Wednesday, as hundreds of Blackhawks fans waited in line – many of them for several hours – for a glimpse of the legendary trophy.
That's what happens when both baseball teams are in the process of being sold for scrap.
In the wake of the outrage, Blackhawks senior director for communications and community relations Brandon Faber released a statement.
Today, the Cup made arguably its most important stop of the offseason - at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
If Justin Bieber was looking for a way to anger Blackhawks fans, this is the way to do it.
She's the Blackhawks fan who took a hockey puck to the face, but that was the last Patricia Higgins saw of it until Tuesday night, when the man who scooped it up gave it back to her at the CBS 2 broadcast center.
Yes, that's right, the Meat Stanley Cup is 35 pounds of bacon, ground beef, hot dogs, and, to top it all off, beer cheese.
The message of the Chicago Gay Hockey Association is summed up in a new video its members have posted online: If you can play, you can play ... and you can win.
Championship get-togethers are a shared delusion.
I don't begrudge Blackhawks fans their fun. Your team won! Awesome! You deserved the parade today. I am however afraid to leave my house tonight. It's Friday. I deserve a drink. And I have no desire to walk into every neighborhood bar just to find it filled with red jerseys and drunken Hawks fans. Again, Hawks fans deserve their celebrations! But that doesn't mean I have to celebrate with them.
They break windows and throw bottles in the street and really stick it to The Man when they think The Man (who likely hasn't oppressed them, as these twenty-somethings are mostly suburban-raised fortunates thinking they're cool by slumming it in the city for street cred) isn't looking.
Hundreds of thousands of Blackhawks fans have crowded city streets downtown and packed into Grant Park for the team's Stanley Cup victory parade and rally.
Seats at Cardozo's Pub at 170 West Washington are easy to come by now. But during the Blackhawks parade? Not so easy.
You can watch Kane's appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman tonight at 10:35 p.m. on CBS.
There's an old song: love is better the second time around. That's how a lot of hawks fans are feeling today about this second championship. It's even sweeter, in part, because it seems, more fans than ever are sharing the excitement.
Three years ago after the Blackhawks won the last Stanley Cup, Tremonte's Barber Shop saw plenty of men looking to shave of their beards. This year, owner Will Tremonte thought he'd make an event out of it.
Blackhawks fans celebrated all night long and into the early morning after the Blackhawks beat the Bruins to win the Stanley Cup for the second time in four years.
If the Blackhawks beat the Bruins Monday night to win the Stanley Cup, merchandisers will be Johnny-on-the-spot with championship wear for sale.
Here's a helpful guide in case you're not quite sure how to approach tonight's Game 6 so as not to embarrass yourself or the city (because Chicago bandwagoners are known nationally).
Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer and Carmen Mlodzinski pitched six-hit ball into the sixth inning, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0.
The Hyde Park community is honoring the life of a woman who safely guided generations of students to and from school.
New proposed Illinois legislation would allow renters or people who can't install massive rooftop panels to also harness the power of the sun.
A woman was injured when a CTA bus in Bronzeville was struck by gunfire Friday afternoon.
The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved a disaster declaration for six counties in Illinois for tornadoes and other severe storms that hit the Kankakee County area last month, Gov. JB Pritzker's office announced Friday.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pointed out that gamers "have many of the hard skills it takes to be a successful controller."
Starting in December, eligible men in the U.S. will be automatically registered for the military draft.
An attorney for ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan argued to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday that the former Democratic power broker's conviction on bribery and other corruption charges should be overturned.
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday met with David Axelrod, a longtime Democratic strategist and former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama.
Attorneys for imprisoned former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan were set to return to court Thursday, in hopes of getting his corruption conviction overturned.
A passenger on an American Airlines flight from New York to Chicago has been charged with making a false bomb threat that forced an emergency landing at Detroit Metro Airport last month, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Skyrocketing property taxes continue to be a hot-button issue in Cook County — particularly since last fall, when many residents saw their tax bills increase by 100% or more.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias this weekend issued a warning about a surge in text messages that falsely claim to come from his office or the DMV within it.
Tenants at a South Loop luxury high-rise that has been plagued with problems like broken elevators are vowing to fight five-day eviction notices.
It's become an annual March Madness tradition at CBS Chicago, pitting our city's best eateries in direct competition in a foodie bracket challenge. We did pizza, we've done Italian beef, we've done Chicago dogs. This year, we're taking flight with wings.
The United States has long struggled with understanding and finding ways to help treat mental illness. A new documentary, which is screening Saturday in Chicago, examines the reality of living with mental illness in America.
Allergy season is here, and the dreaded pollen can trigger sneezing, congestion, wheezing, and shortness of breath.
Northwestern Medicine and the American Red Cross teamed up for a community blood drive in Chicago on Monday morning.
Ending domestic violence is the goal of groups and advocates all over the world, and some experts in Chicago say it is time to become less reactive and more proactive when it comes to the people causing harm.
A new Iowa law bans local nondiscrimination protections on the basis of gender identity after the state became the first in the U.S. to roll back its civil rights code last year.
A new restaurant has joined the busy stretch of Halsted Street toward the south end of Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood that is also home to Alinea and Boka.
The federal government is suing Illinois, Connecticut and Arizona over efforts to regulate prediction market operators such as Kalshi and Polymarket.
The owners of the popular Uncommon Ground restaurant, live music venue, and brewery in Chicago's Wrigleyville community announced this week that they're looking for a successor to take over the business.
Chicago consistently ranks in the top three cities in Fortune 500 company headquarters, and now a competition has been launched to build on Chicago's power in business.
The flagship Ann Sather restaurant on Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview community will be moving later this year, a restaurant representative said Tuesday.
The United States has long struggled with understanding and finding ways to help treat mental illness. A new documentary, which is screening Saturday in Chicago, examines the reality of living with mental illness in America.
Afrika Bambaataa, a rapper and producer, was best known for breakthrough tracks like 1982's "Planet Rock" and for founding the Universal Zulu Nation art collective.
Mozart's "Don Giovanni," the local premiere of the 2022 opera "Omar," and a fresh production of "Guys and Dolls" are among the highlights of the 2026-2027 season for Chicago's Lyric Opera.
Federal magistrate Renee Harris Toliver told Pooh Sheisty that the evidence against him is strong.
A major music festival featuring the rapper formerly known as Kanye West was canceled after the U.K. government blocked Ye from entering the country.
A crowded CTA bus was struck by bullets on Friday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood, leaving one passenger injured.
The Hyde Park community is honoring the life of a woman who safely guided generations of students to and from school. Crossing guard Latanya Sullivan – affectionately known as Ms. Tanya – was a fixture outside Ray Elementary School for more than 25 years.
Emergency sewer repairs are causing a major downtown Chicago road closure starting next week. The Chicago Department of Transportation said southbound State Street will be closed between Wacker Drive and Randolph Street beginning Monday morning.
Chief meteorologist Albert Ramon has the latest First Alert Weather forecast.
A Chicago man appeared in federal court on Friday, charged with threatening to assassinate President Trump and his son, Barron, and also threatening an agent who visited the man's home to investigate.
A CTA Bus was struck by bullets Friday afternoon, the president of the transit union said.
A man with an axe damaged the personal vehicles of several Chicago firefighters on Friday morning outside their fire station in Washington Park. It was the second such incident this week.
The Archdiocese is accusing Chicago Public Schools of abruptly pulling funding for students with disabilities, but the district disputes the claim.
NASA's Artemis II astronauts are set to return to Earth with a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean after making a high-speed reentry through the atmosphere.
The Hyde Park community is honoring the life of a woman who safely guided generations of students to and from school.
New proposed Illinois legislation would allow renters or people who can't install massive rooftop panels to also harness the power of the sun.
When a rusty light pole snapped and fell on a woman's car in Bucktown, causing thousands of dollars in damage, she thought the city would pay for it. She was wrong.
Financial exploitation is the leading type of elder abuse in Illinois. One Streamwood woman learned that personally, when her brother took hundreds of thousands of dollars from their parents' financial accounts.
One year after a teenage girl was shot outside her home in Country Club Hills, Illinois, and was told she would never walk again, she continued to defy the odds and reclaim her independence.
A Morgan Park family is still in shock after a staggering 300% spike in their latest property tax bill, and the man poised to take over as Cook County Assessor at the end of the year says it's an error he wants to make sure doesn't happen again.
Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer and Carmen Mlodzinski pitched six-hit ball into the sixth inning, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0.
Logan Stankoven had two goals and an assist, helping the depleted Carolina Hurricanes beat the Chicago Blackhawks 7-2.
Anthony Kay allowed three hits in 5 2/3 innings to pick up his first major league victory since July 2021 as the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0.
Leonard Miller scored a career-high 26 points and matched his career best with 11 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls eased to a 119-108 victory over the Washington Wizards to sweep a two-game set.
Tim Sinclair is the only public address announcer who works for three professional teams in the same city here in Chicago, and a familiar voice to many sports fans. But he almost wasn't.
Federal magistrate Renee Harris Toliver told Pooh Sheisty that the evidence against him is strong.
A man was injured in a fight with a woman at a CTA the CTA Belmont Avenue Red-Brown-Purple Line station this week, but police said he didn't report until several hours later.
Chicago police on Tuesday issued a community alert about car break-ins targeting patrons of a gym in the city's Irving Park neighborhood.
Chicago police on Tuesday issued a community alert about a rash of car break-ins in Jackson Park on the city's South Side.
A shooting left a 16-year-old boy dead Tuesday morning in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.
