As amazing as the “Miracle on Madison Street” has been, the Blackhawks’ surge of successes has been missing something.

While many have been critical of the Simeon star’s selection of Duke University, fellow Mormons in Chicago have been sympathetic, supportive, and impressed with the teenager’s character.

Chicago’s pre-eminent boxing trainer, Sam Colonna, reckons he has been in ring corners for “thousands of fights” over the past 27 years—enough to know winning isn’t everything.

History enhances some reputations and swallows others. Chicago boxer Jimmy Barry’s falls into that second category, but deserves to be in the first. Here’s why.

As an amateur fighter in Chicago Park District bouts, Al Bernstein knew he would not become a professional boxer or wind up in boxing’s Hall of Fame. He was half right.

You might be able to hear crickets in the United Center this week, but if you listen closely, you might also hear the reverberation of jabs, hooks and overhand-rights. Boxing was Chicago, once, and Michael Hirsley is here to help you remember (or teach you.)

The city’s storied Golden Gloves tournament begins its finals this week. The crowds may be smaller than they used to be—but the dreams are just as big.