Cubs fans packing trains to Chicago for parade

Commuter trains running into downtown Chicago are already packed, hours ahead of the victory parade for the World Series champion Chicago Cubs.

The Cubs were five outs away from reaching the World Series at the time.

Lids, part of Hat World Inc. and the biggest hat seller in the US, has 1,300 shops across North America, but on Thursday the priority was Chicago.

The Cubs parade is scheduled to start about 10 a.m.at Wrigley Field before winding south into downtown along the famed Michigan Avenue to Grant Park for a rally.

“It will be a parade that 108 years have waited for”, Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised.

The year 2016 is turning out to be a year of unexpected winners in sports. The “lovable loser thing” – and all the accompanying lore embroidered by long-suffering fan loyalty – may be lost to the newest fans, Anderson said, but “we’ve had enough of that”. “It will be a parade and a celebration that all of Chicago for 108 years in their mind’s eye, have been envisioning”.

These kids don’t know how good they have it; back in my day, we had our hearts broken 12-15 times before a championship. Asked whether the Chicago River will be dyed blue, he said he would like to do that but wasn’t certain if it would work.

But a lot of people, including me, still put a lot of blood, toil, tears and sweat into baseball. Never have I experienced anything like Wrigley Field on a nightly basis.

The long-awaited party didn’t come easy, of course: Fans of a certain age were certain the eighth inning home run that tied the game for the Indians was going to turn into another chapter in the Cubs’ long story of heartbreak, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. The Kansas City Royals didn’t get the same invitation after winning the 2015 World Series, further highlighting just how significant the Cubs’ victory is in American pop culture. And he could have had no idea of the impact that win would have on the fans of the Cubs. An estimated one million fans are expected to pack the streets along the parade route.

According to Variety, a full one-third of the TV sets in use Wednesday were tuned to Fox’s broadcast of the last game of the 2016 series, which saw fans suffer through both extra innings and a rain delay, ending just before midnight Central time.

No matter how you crunch the numbers, it’s safe to say that the 2016 Fall Classic was truly legendary.

Many found ways to share the joy with loved one who did not live long enough to see it for themselves, spelling out their memories in chalk on the brick walls of the ballpark.