Chris Hine: Cheering national anthem at Blackhawks games shouldn't silence other voices

CHICAGO - The way the Blackhawks celebrate the national anthem has always come off as ironic, given the team's origin.

You might know founder Frederic McLaughlin named the team after his army unit in World War I that was nicknamed the Black Hawks. That name has an interesting background in American history.

Black Hawk was the leader of the Sauk people, and during the 1800s, he tried to keep his people's land, some of which was in Illinois, from the expanding United States, which was pressuring the Sauks to give it up. For decades,