The Blackhawks offense was solid at the United Center. In Madison, Wisconsin used a 17-2 second-half run to rout Northwestern. more ›

The Blackhawks play eight of their next nine games at the United Center and got off to a rousing start by defeating Columbus. more ›

It was a team effort for the Blackhawks last night as Joel Quenneville won his 600th game as a head coach. more ›

The Blackhawks kept pace with the league-leading Wild last night, thanks to JOnathan Toews and Patrick Kane's shootout goals. more ›

Viktor Stalberg proved to be the difference again as the Blackhawks improved to 7-2-2 on the young season. more ›

We prefer a more wide open brand of hockey, but we also have to admit that since the Blackhawks decided to start hitting the Vancouver Canucks back, the momentum in their Stanley Cup playoff series has shifted. The Canucks have reverted back to the team that Daily Herald columnist Barry Rozner described as "gutless." The Hawks routed Vancouver 5-0 last night, cutting their deficit in the series to 3-2 and forcing Game 6 at the United Center Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. more ›

It may be baseball season, but it's time to start looking ahead to basketball and hockey playoffs after the Bulls clinched the top seed in the East and the Blackhawks nearly wrapped up their spot in the playoffs Friday night. more ›

The Bulls have been winning games recently they may have had no reason to be winning, getting off to sluggish starts and relying on Derrick Rose to will them back into games. That caught up with them last night in a 97-85 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers at the United Center. Rose was 12-24 from the field for 31 points, but he also had 10 turnovers as the Sixers ran at the Bulls and attacked the basket all night. Sixers swingman Andre Iguodala was all over Luol Deng, holding Deng to 10 points. Iguodala scored 19 points. the Sixers were led by reserve guard Teddy Young's 21 points. more ›

Before last night the Blackhawks were unable to break through against their former goalie Antti Niemi and the San Jose Sharks. But the offensive firepower that's been a part of the team's resurgence the past month finally got to Niemi. Marian Hossa scored twice on power plays and Patrick Kane scored the 100th goal of his career as the Blackhawks doubled up the Sharks 6-3 at the united Center. In the process, the Hawks avoided a regular season sweep by San Jose and vaulted back into fourth place in the tightly packed Western Conference. The Blackhawks next face the Dallas Stars Thursday. more ›

The Blackhawks have found themselves on a hot streak, and not just combined as a team. Captain Joanthan Toews scored a goal to extend his point streak to nine games as the Hawks grabbed their eighth straight win vs. the Maple Leafs Saturday. more ›

When the games matter most, that's when you want your best players to step up. That's exactly what Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews did last night against the Phoenix Coyotes at the United Center. Toews scored twice in regulation and tallied the only goal in the shootout round as the Blackhawks continued their hot streak with a 4-3 win over the Coyotes. The win makes four straight for the Hawks and five of six. Captain Serious also has a five-game scoring streak in that span. more ›

Murphy's Law states that what can go wrong, will go wrong. The law of gravity states that what goes up must come down. Not to sound too much like Marty McFly, but it must get pretty heavy in Chicago as the Blackhawks can't seem to get out of this injury plagued funk, maintaining a healthy trend of injuries heading into 2011. more ›

Marty Turco and Patrick Sharp led the Blackhawks in their fourth straight win while Carlos Boozer, Derrick Rose, and the Bulls held on for an overtime win in Detroit. more ›

Well, Blackhawks’ coach Joel Quenneville was right when he said he had expectations of Marian Hossa returning after Christmas, the day after to be exact. After missing ten games due to an upper body injury, Hossa will return as the Hawks host the Blue Jackets tonight. more ›

Blackhawks 3, Ducks 2 (OT): Given their woes at home this season, the Blackhawks may be looking forward to the annual "circus trip" as a means to forge bonds between the veterans who won the Stanley Cup and the new players like Jack Skille, Fernando Pisani and Viktor Stalberg. Stalberg wound up being the hero in overtime, deflecting a Duncan Keith slapshot past Anaheim goalie Jonas Hiller with 27 seconds left in overtime to give the Hawks a win on home ice. Patrick Kane and Marian Hossa each had a goal and an assist for the Blackhawks. more ›

The upper body injury suffered by Blackhawks right wing Marian Hossa in last night's win over the Los Angeles Kings will keep him out of action for two weeks. more ›

Blackhawks 3, Blues 2 (OT): Hours after being named the NHL's "Second Star of the Week," Marian Hossa made a case for why he should have been named first star. Hossa erased a two-goal deficit in the third period and Patrick Sharp scored the game winner 3:50 into the overtime period as the Blackhawks suddenly find themselves with a three-game winning streak and a division-leading nine points in seven games. more ›

After a whirlwind summer that saw the Blackhawks drag the Stanley Cup to all corners of the globe, as high as the Canadian Rockies to whatever bar Patrick Kane was creeping at the time, Cold Steel on Ice gets back to the business of defending the Cup tonight, opening the regular season on the road against the Colorado Avalanche. more ›

• Cook County President Todd Stroger's troubled jobs training program lost $2,7 million and could lose even more.
• The Cook County Sheriff's latest partner in crime-fighting: garbage men.
• The attorney for Rod Blagojevich, brother and co-defendant of former governor Rob Blagojevich, admitted he regrets not calling U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. to the stand.

Chicago's Shani Davis wasn't able to skate away with another gold medal but he did earn the silver in the men's 1500m speed skating race to go along with his earlier gold medal. Daivs finished with a time of 1:46.10, just .53 behind Mark Tuitert of the Netherlands. more ›

The 'Hawks have several things to thankful for this morning as they continue on a big roll. First, last night's game saw the Blackhawks debut for their big off-season free agent signing, Marian Hossa, who missed the start to the season thanks to off-season shoulder surgery. And, second, the 'Hawks' winning streak reached eight games as they cruised past San Jose 7-2. Troy Brouwer got a late first period goal for an early 1-0 lead. But early in the second, the 'Hawks cracked the game wide open when Hossa and Patrick Sharp scored short-handed goals within 28 seconds of each other. Midway through the period, Dustin Byfuglien added a goal and the 'Hawks went into the second intermission up 4-0. more ›

With all of the Olympics hoopla last week, we hadn't yet had a chance to preview the Blackhawks season, which opened in Helsinki, Finland against the Florida Panthers on Friday. After last season's renaissance on the ice, hockey has re-emerged as a sport we in Chicago care about, and we fans have high expectations for our Blackhawks in 2009-10. more ›

We guess new Blackhawks don't have to wait long for their company health insurance to kick in, because just weeks after signing the richest contract in team history, Marian Hossa will require surgery on his injured shoulder. The one he hurt while still a member of the Detroit Red Wings. more ›

Well, that didn't take long. It seems the newly acquired Blackhawk Marian Hossa has a shoulder injury he sustained in this year's playoffs that he's rehabbing. Hossa, who signed a 12-year, $62.8 million deal three weeks ago, had informed the 'Hawks of the injury before the signing according to reports. According to the Tribune, "The extent of the injury and whether Hossa will have to undergo surgery to repair it are not yet known." more ›

The Chicago Blackhawks did some unveiling yesterday, first unveiling two of their bigger free agent signings this offseason to a crowd of fans at a press conference at the United Center and then unveiling their 2009-2010 schedule. New 'Hawks GM Stan Bowman introduced Marian Hossa and Tomas Kopecky, two big free agents that the 'Hawks swept from the Stanley Cup finalists Detroit Red Wings. more ›