It’s Rivalry Week (or two) here on SB Nation, and obviously, when Blues fans think of rivalry, they think of the Chicago Blackhawks.
There’s been a rivalry between the cities of St. Louis and Chicago dating back to the mid to late 1800s. Both cities were growing into their own as large centers of American manufacturing, shipping, and rail travel. For a while there, back in 1869, people even wanted to make St. Louis the capital of the United States due to location and the fact that DC was a cesspool (literal, mostly).