Hope is a dangerous thing, particularly in this dark age of Chicago sports.

For the city’s five big franchises – the Bulls, Bears, Blackhawks, White Sox and Cubs – the past few years have mostly been spent either mired in the wasteland of irrelevance or buried in the depraved depths of self-pity.

And after 2024, when they lost a combined 62.5 per cent of their games in the calendar year, the golden age of Michael Jordan and six championships couldn’t have felt so far away.

As for this year? The Blackhawks are on the up and playing a brand of hockey that is watchable, if not downright entertaining. But still, there is a sense it may not quite be sustainable.

The Bears, meanwhile, continue to find new ways to let everyone down after following up four-straight wins with a complete and utt

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