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Eric Olson: A celebration 100 years in the making The narrative changes for Cubs fans Cubs’ attention turns to title repeat Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant lift Cubs to the World Series title Rick Telander: Kris Bryant seems to have everything going for him 8-9 Local Cubs fans submit their photos 10-11 Cubs commemorative poster 12-13 Local Cubs fans submit their photos 14-15 Millions celebrate the World Series win at Chicago’s parade and rally 16-17 ‘A city of MVPs’: Cubs fans pack World Series parade and rally 18 Tom Musick: Kris Bryant’s smile says it all 19 Michael Penkava: A World Series for the Twilight Zone

Chicago Cubs John Lester (left) holds the Commissioner’s Trophy while he and Anthony Rizzo celebrate during a rally in Grant Park honoring the World Series baseball champions Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in Chicago.

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EDITOR’S NOTE Eric Olson look like if the Cubs won the World Series?” Now we know.

Chicago’s teams have seen their share of titles in recent years.

White Sox fans will have you know that this was not Chicago’s first World Series championship in a century.

But a Cubs world championship was the last domino to fall in Chicago sports. A monolith, more like.

After Miguel Montero and Ben Zobrist’s RBI hits in the top of the 10th set up the Cubs to finally finish off the Indians, all of us – from babes in Cubs onesies to the 107-year-old Cubs fan living at Oak Crest Retirement Center in DeKalb – saw something we’d never seen before and perhaps had wondered if we ever would.

As the years go by, it will be a part of history. But in the immediate aftermath, as we woke on a foggy Thursday morning, lots of us were still wondering – did that actually happen?

Yes, it did at last after 108 years – and as we shared it, so many of us thought of all those others who never got to see it: our grandfathers and grandmothers, aunts and uncles, mothers and fathers, the people who took us to the ballpark as children or watched the games with us on WGN, who made us buy into this whole Cubs thing in the first place.

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For Cubs fans everywhere, it triggered the kind of euphoria that, when it hits you square on, you’ve got to make noise.”

Cubs heroes like Ron Santo and Ernie Banks – we wish they could have seen it.

Beloved broadcasters Harry Caray and Jack Brickhouse – if only they could have called it.

But we have new heroes now, too.

Rizzo, the team leader; Bryant, whose game-ending smile will be forever a part of Cubs lore; Zobrist, your World Series MVP; Jon Lester, the ace who doesn’t throw to first base; the calm Ivy League pitcher Kyle Hendricks; Cy Young winner Jake Arrieta and his formidable beard, and “you go, we go” leadoff man Dexter Fowler, who became the first black player to appear in the World Series for the Cubs, among others.

There was a cool, unconventional manager, Joe Maddon, who kept things loose and urged his players to “try not to suck.” There was a now-legendary front-office leader in Theo Epstein, who now has brought long-awaited championships both to Boston and

Chicago.

All of it started when the Ricketts family bought the Cubs in 2009, rehabbed Wrigley Field, brought in the best baseball minds in the game, and after some of the leanest years in the history of a team known for lean years, built a winner.

After waiting for the someday when they’d go all the way, now that it’s here, maybe the takeaway is that it’s the road to the victory that’s the best part.

The long nights, the thrilling 9th inning comeback to win the NLDS against the San Francisco Giants, the clinching wins against elite pitchers including the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw and the Cleveland Indians’ Corey Kluber and their killer bullpen – it was the most exciting October many of us ever have seen.

Now Cubs fans can move on. No more black cats, no more goats. No more priests blessing the dugout, no more “wait till next year,” no more waiting for the inevitable collapse.

Baseball is a kids’ game. But to those who followed the Cubs their entire lives wondering if they ever would see this day, this championship is something more.

After years of belief and disappointment, it’s finally happened. The Cubs are World Series champions, and it feels great.

As Mr. Cub might have said, “let’s win two!”

• Eric Olson is editor of the Daily Chronicle in DeKalb.

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t felt like a dream. It felt like an exorcism.

It was close to midnight on Nov. 2 in Chicago. Hundreds of miles away at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant grinned as he fielded Michael Martinez’s softly hit ground ball in the bottom of the 10th inning and threw to Anthony Rizzo at first to seal the Cubs’ 8-7, Game 7 win against the Cleveland Indians to clinch their first World Series title in 108 years.

For Cubs fans everywhere, it triggered the kind of euphoria that, when it hits you square on, you’ve got to make noise.

Fans opened windows or walked out their front doors and screamed into the darkness.

There were fireworks, car horns.

In Evanston they set off the emergency sirens. In Wrigleyville, people poured into the streets beneath the famous Wrigley Field marquee that read, for the first time, “World Series Champions.”

People hugged. They high-fived.

They cried.

The celebration came after a 4-hour, 28-minute Game 7 that included a 17-minute rain delay and a late Indians comeback that left Cubs fans with their heads in their hands and knots in their stomachs.

As though it could have been any other way?

For years, people had daydreamed about that night.

“Can you imagine what it would

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hey spoke of heartbreak and black cats and goats. And finally, Chicago Cubs fans spoke with pride about winning it all.

This is new territory for these long-suffering fans and it showed in the days after the Cubs wrapped up their first World Series championship since 1908 with a Game 7, extra-inning thriller in Cleveland against the Indians. Amid all the celebrating and relief and joy ahead of Friday’s big downtown parade, there was a bit of confusion on just how to proceed.

After all, 108 years of falling short is a long time.

“That just dawned on me yesterday that Chicago’s not going to have that reputation anymore of lovable losers,” said Peggy Herrington, 49, of Chicago. “We’re not going to fall back on that and think about the goats or anything.”

She and others were just fine with that.

“You get all the ridicule from your friends – ‘lovable losers,’ ‘they always blow it, I know they’re gonna blow this,’” said Michael McNeela, a 66-year-old Chicago retiree who has rooted for the Cubs since he was 11.

“And they have to eat their words. ...

I got a (championship) hat now and they’re going to see it and they have to shut up.”

The story of the Cubs, like so many teams (including Cleveland), is filled with sadness and what ifs. It’s just that the Cubs have always seemed to come up empty in the most puzzling

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Chicago Cubs fans celebrate in front of Wrigley Field in Chicago on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, after the Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in Game 7 of the baseball World Series in Cleveland. ways. The August collapse in 1969, which included a black cat on the field at one point, and of course the 2003 postseason when fate and a fan named Steve Bartman stepped in and suddenly a trip to the Series was gone. But those milestones will fade now, along with the fabled curse of the billy goat, leveled in 1945 – the last time the Cubs reached the Fall Classic.

“I think what this does for the identity of the Cubs fan is maybe they will have to deal with less of that tired old trope of the goat, the black cat,” said Lin Brehmer, a devoted fan and local radio host. “That’s all in the past now. You can forget that part of our narrative.”

There is a new story for Cubs Nation and fans were eager to share it with each other. Thousands celebrated into the night in the streets of Wrig-

leyville and many bleary-eyed faces were seen on the morning commute as a new era dawned in Chicago. The Cubs returned to a hero’s welcome in the wee hours, with first baseman Anthony Rizzo cheered at Wrigley Field as he held the World Series trophy aloft.

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.

Among them was Mike Compton, 59, of suburban Arlington Heights.

“He passed away in January, was 91 years old,” Compton said of his father. “I had to come down and put his name on the brick.”

Others who poured out of taverns near Wrigley when the game was over to shout, sing, cry, hug and take

photographs also took a few seconds early Thursday to touch statues of Cubs greats Ron Santo, Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and broadcaster Harry Caray. It was an easy way to share the event with whose long careers with the Cubs came and went without even a trip to the Series.

“It is sad for past generations that missed it all together,” said Judy Pareti, who came from New York to stand outside the Murphy’s Bleachers tavern, which is in a building across the street from Wrigley .

“My great uncle went to every game with a scorecard and he died a few years ago,” she said. “He just missed all of this.”

She added: “It is sad we are never going to see them win for the first time ever again. We lost that.”

Of course, the Cubs didn’t make it easy. A seven-game series is always tense and the Cubs blew a 5-1 lead in the finale Wednesday night. When the Indians tied things up in the eighth inning, many feared yet another devastating chapter in the long history of Cubs heartbreak was on the way.

“When they tied it up it felt like it was over, they (the Cubs) had lost,” said Mike Dillon, a banking executive who drove to a tavern just outside Wrigley to be among other fans . “I couldn’t believe they won and even going home I had to turn on the news channels to make sure it actually happened.”

In the end, between 11:46 p.m. and 11:47 p.m. Central time, he and others went from being the longest-suffering fans in American sports to fans of the best team in baseball.

“It showed the fight, the grit, the up-and-down, the history of the team, the fans and the city,” said Donna Drepeau, a 50-year-old artist. “It had to be that way, it couldn’t come easy. That team showed Chicago what we are.”

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time soon. Not with a young core.

MVP candidates Bryant and Rizzo are 24 and 27, respectively. Shortstop Addison Russell is 22. Second baseman Javy Baez and catcher Willson Contreras are 24. All had big moments in the postseason, and all are under team control through at least 2021.

For that matter, major league ERA champion Kyle Hendricks turns 27 in December.

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Chicago Cubs’ Javier Baez celebrates his home run with Kyle Schwarber during the fifth inning of Game 7 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Cleveland. and a 2-1 deficit against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS to capture their first pennant in 71 years.

They topped it all off when they became the first team since the 1985 Kansas City Royals to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win the title. And now, that World Series W flies.

As the Cubs – the Cubs, of all teams – turn their attention toward a championship repeat, here are some things to know.

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The Cubs will have to pay up if they want to keep their closer. That’s because Chapman has an expiring contract and figures to become baseball’s richest reliever.

The flame-throwing closer converted 16 of 18 save opportunities for Chicago during the regular season after

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If Chapman signs with another team, the Cubs could go back to Hector Rondon as their closer.

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The Cubs pulled off a surprise by re-signing Dexter Fowler to a $33 million, three-year deal during spring training when he appeared headed to Baltimore. He figures to exercise a $5 million buyout rather than a $9 million mutual option. The Cubs’ leadoff hitter and center fielder, Fowler helped his stock with a .276 average and .393 onbase percentage.

Jason Hammel also has an option.

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The Cubs barely flinched after Kyle Schwarber suffered what they thought was a season-ending knee injury in his second game of the season.

Even so, there was no denying the impact the 23-year-old slugger had in the World Series.

Cleared to hit – but not play the field – Schwarber went 7 for 17. But the Cubs could have a logjam next season if the team returns mostly intact.

That’s because Schwarber, Jorge Soler and the versatile Ben Zobrist will all be looking for time in left field.

Then again, manager Joe Maddon has shown he knows how to juggle the lineup and keep everyone involved.

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Shut out four times, it was a boomor-bust postseason for the Cubs’ big bats. Maddon attributed that to the team’s youth. And he expects that to be the team’s biggest area of improvement.

“If you look at our kids, I think if you put your scout’s cap on, it’s going to be easy to understand that the area we’re going to get better at is offense,” he said. “Understanding themselves better, understanding what the pitcher’s going to try to do against them.

Understanding how to make adjustments in the game. Understanding how to utilize the entire field more consistently as they gain experience.”

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o more Lovable Losers.

Forget those curses, too.

The Chicago Cubs ended decades of heartache and futility by beating the Cleveland Indians for their first championship since 1908. And that means for the first time in 108 years, the Cubs can – get this – turn their attention toward a championship repeat.

They finally wiped out baseball’s longest title drought last week in Cleveland when third baseman Kris Bryant fielded Michael Martinez’s grounder off Mike Montgomery and threw to Anthony Rizzo at first, closing out an epic Game 7 of the World Series against the Indians.

That set off a celebration more than a century in the making in Chicago. It was still going on through the weekend.

Fans jammed the sidewalks outside of Wrigley Field, taking photos under the famed marquee, which read “WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.” Across the street at the corner of Clark and Addison, the line to get into a sportswear store selling Cubs merchandise stretched around the corner.

The chempionship parade and rally at Grant Park on Friday was attended by about five million people.

“We’re in the books,” Rizzo said.

“We’re in history forever. This team is brothers forever no matter what.”

World Series favorites from the start, the Cubs spent almost the entire season in first place on the way to a 10358 record – their highest win total since the 1910 team with 104.

They beat the playoff-tested San Francisco Giants in the NLDS. They shook off back-to-back shutout losses

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Rizzo, Bryant help lift Cubs to title

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nthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant have been nearly inseparable since the day they became major league teammates in the spring of 2015, 20-somethings with power and talent to burn.

Their lockers are practically on top of each other in the Chicago Cubs clubhouse. Their names are often squeezed one on top of the other in manager Joe Maddon’s lineup. Heck, they even have one of those catchy nicknames typically reserved for Hollywood power couples.

And now “Bryzzo� has something else: a world title.

The centerpieces of Theo Epstein’s methodical, patient rebuild helped the Cubs shed 108 years of futility last week with one final game of catch in the 10th inning of Game 7 of the World Series.

When Bryant fielded the grounder by Cleveland’s Michael Martinez and fired it across the diamond to Rizzo at first base, the moment they’d talked about suddenly came to be.

Cubs 8. Indians 7. Curse vanquished.

Destiny fulfilled.

And more may be on the way. Bryant is 24. Rizzo is 27. Shortstop Addison Russell is 22. Second baseman Javy Baez, 24. Catcher Willson Contreras, 24. All of them are under team control through at least 2021. More celebrations may lie ahead. “I think we’re going to have more opportunities,� general manager Jed Hoyer said. “But the playoffs are really humbling ... To think that simply being the most talented team and having the best record, it’s still really hard to win. I think this playoff series showed that.�

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Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant celebrates after Game 7 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Cleveland. young core learns on the fly, a group personified by Rizzo – the first major piece acquired by Epstein in 2012 – and Bryant – taken with the second overall pick in the 2013 draft. “This is what you dream for,� Bryant said. “I mean, I made the last out of the World Series.�

Well, technically Rizzo made the final out. Something they’d talked about a week ahead of time. “He said, ‘If I make the last out, I’m keeping that ball because it’s worth a lot of money,’� Bryant said with a laugh.

A memento Rizzo clutched tight as he and Bryant raced to hug each other as their teammates joyously poured onto the Progressive Field turf to put an exclamation point on a season when they finally turned Chicago’s century-old tag of lovable losers into something far more refined: champions. “This is unbelievable,� Rizzo said.

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Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo reacts after teammate Kris Bryant scored on Rizzo’s hit during the fifth inning of Game 7 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Cleveland. “It’s so exhausting. Looking back on it, this was our 210th game with spring training and playoffs and the season. We deserve this.�

It’s an outcome that seemingly was never in doubt from the moment Bryant hit a solo home run in the fourth inning of Game 5, the one that kick-started a season-saving victory and served as the rocket fuel that propelled the franchise to heights not seen since 1908.

The blast off Trevor Bauer tied the game. Rizzo then doubled and scored the go-ahead run. Chicago never trailed again. Not in a 9-3 laugher in Game 6. Not during the clincher, one that featured Bryant and Rizzo right in the middle of the rally that gave the Cubs an early four-run lead.

There Rizzo was again in the 10th after the Indians had improbably tied it off closer Aroldis Chapman with a two-run home run in the seventh. The Indians chose to intentionally walk Rizzo to put runners on first and second with one out, setting up Ben Zobrist for the go-ahead RBI double. Rizzo then raced home for the deciding run on Miguel Montero’s single to left.

Bryant, the heavy favorite to win the NL MVP later this month, finished the Series hitting .267 with two home runs.

Rizzo hit .360 with a homer and three doubles. And they’re just getting started. “They’re the heart of this team,� said Zobrist, the Series MVP. “What they’ve done together in their time is pretty special.�

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Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant celebrates with his teammates after Game 7 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Cleveland.

In the fifth inning, he took off from first base an instant before Indians pitcher Andrew Miller threw the ball and scored on Anthony Rizzo’s single to right.

What we’ve got here, folks, is a ballplayer, a kid who was made to play this game.

Bryant is a courteous and friendly

young man, too. His mouth seems to go into a natural smile, something that reminds one of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, a man who always looks happy, even if he isn’t.

But the next time we hear Bryant complain about anything or rip a teammate or a management decision will be the first.

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his World Series title changes everything, and 24-yearold Kris Bryant better be ready.

Not only is the Cubs third baseman likely to be announced as the National League MVP soon, but he unofficially has been anointed as the Cubs’ new personality, face and most famous guy anywhere on the planet.

That undercover-driver commercial he did for Lyft a year ago, the one where nobody recognized him? Forget about it!

My favorite exchange was the one with a hip young fellow seated next to Bryant: Passenger: ‘‘I play volleyball. How about you?’’

Bryant: ‘‘I play baseball.’’

Passenger: ‘‘OK.’’ That ad was sweet with its humorous innocence. But the Cubs and Bryant are new people now, with fame and glory draping them like capes. Bryant rocked during the playoffs, hitting .308 (20-for-65) with three home runs, eight RBI, 11 runs scored and nine walks.

Of course, during the regular season, he hit .292 with 39 homers, 102 RBI and an amazing 121 runs scored. That last stat – runs scored – tells you much about Bryant’s worth to the Cubs. Not only does he hit for power and average, but he draws walks and always seems to be involved when the offense explodes.

In Game 7 of the World Series against the Indians, he scored twice on some slick and bold baserunning. In the fourth inning, he scored on a sacrifice fly by Addison Russell. His speed and textbook slide enabled him to beat Indians center fielder Rajai Davis’ throw.

You’ll recall he didn’t start his 2015 rookie season in the majors, so the Cubs could keep him under their control for an extra year. It was a sneaky business deal because Bryant was as ready for the majors as a man can be, but he didn’t bad-mouth anyone, even if fiery agent Scott Boras wanted to nail the Cubs for rigging things and not trying to win.

Bryant praised Cubs ownership while saying of Boras: ‘‘It’s nice to have a bulldog working for you rather than a poodle.’’ By the way, Bryant won the NL Rookie of the Year Award despite not playing his first game until April 17.

Yes, Ben Zobrist won the MVP award for the Series, and it likely was deserved. But if the trophy had gone to Bryant, it would have been hard to complain about the choice. The guy made some terrific plays at third base and, as mentioned, was always in the mix.

So the Cubs are something new now.

They have turned in their old costumes, those of striving and perennial failures and runners-up, for the robes of conquering kings. They’re on top now, the hunted and – possibly for some – the hated. They must be careful and figure out how to be champs. How to act. How to defend. How to be gracious.

For Bryant, who walked through the dugout after the champagne flowed, his goggles on his forehead, his left arm around fiancée Jessica Delp, his right hand clutching a half-eaten Snickers bar, life never will be so simple again.

As one of those unsuspecting Lyft riders said, this new guy Bryant was ‘‘projected to be a stud.’’

It has happened. He’s a star. He’s the Cubs.

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Millions celebrate with parade, rally

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ovember blazed like dazzling springtime in Chicago during a massive parade and rally Friday to honor the Cubs’ first World Series title in 108 years and fulfill more than a century of pent-up dreams.

A new generation of Cubs fans – riding in strollers or on their parents’ shoulders – joined their elders to cheer the baseball champions. For the youngest, the day would be their first bright memory of following a club once known as “lovable losers.”

Their parents marveled at how their children will know the confident, young team as winners.

“It’s a whole new Cubs world,” said Dean Anderson, 51, of Chicago, who brought his 10-year-old son, Chase, to see the players’ motorcade as it rolled out from Wrigley Field at the start of the parade route. 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.”

A crowd, estimated by city officials at 5 million, lined Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive to cheer the motorcade of open-roofed buses carrying the players along a 7-mile parade route from the north side ballpark to sprawling Grant Park. The city’s tally included everyone who lined the route and the rally throngs. Friday was already a scheduled day off for Chicago Public Schools.

Revelers crawled up trees and streetlight poles to get a better view along the route. Others sat atop shoulders to watch the team buses shimmering under a spray of red and blue confetti.

ABOVE: Chicago Cubs fans celebrate before a rally in Grant Park honoring the World Series baseball champions in Chicago, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016.

LEFT: Chicago Cub Kyle Schwarber pumps up the crowd at the corner of Addison and Sheffield Avenues outside of Wrigley Field as the Cubs World Series celebration parade steps off Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in Chicago.

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Chicago Cubs President of baseball operations Theo Epstein rides with the World Series trophy at the corner of Addison and Sheffield Avenues outside of Wrigley Field as the Cubs World Series celebration parade steps off Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in Chicago. she said, referring to the story of a Chicago tavern owner who supposedly put a hex on the team after his pet goat was turned away from Wrigley during the 1945 World Series.

For days, Cubs mania has spread throughout the city and state. The cast of the Chicago production of “Hamilton” led a sold-out audience in singing “Go Cubs Go” during the Thursday night curtain call. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner declared Friday as “World Champion Chicago Cubs Day” statewide.

The city dyed the Chicago River a bright shade of blue to match the Cubs’ colors, repurposing a decades-long tradition of dyeing the river green on St. Patrick’s Day. Far from being sad about bidding their team farewell for the year, fans looked forward to the future.

Outfielder Kyle Schwarber, 23, took the microphone Friday and put it into words for the fans: “I love you guys. We’re world champs. Let’s do it again next year.”

Chicago Cubs players Anthony Rizzo (left) and Dexter Fowler acknowledge the crowd at the corner of Addison and Sheffield Avenues outside of Wrigley Field as the Cubs World Series victory celebration parade steps off Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in Chicago.

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Steve Angelo of Chicago carried his 4-year-old son, Nicholas, who held a “World Champs” sign.

“For him, the more and more they win now, at his earlier age, the more and more excitement there is,” Angelo said. “There’s parades, and people talk about it more on the radio and TV. It’s going to be a lot more exciting now.”

During the jubilant festivities at the park, 39-year-old retiring Cubs catcher David Ross posed for a selfie in front of a multitude of roaring fans.

Ross and the other players put their arms around each other and sang “Go Cubs Go” from the stage along with the blissed-out crowd.

“It happened, baby. It happened!” proclaimed 27-year-old first baseman Anthony Rizzo to adoring cheers.

Team manager Joe Maddon – wearing a stocking cap, sunglasses and a jersey over a “We did not suck” T-shirt – looked out over a sea of blue.

“Welcome to Cubstock 2016!”

Maddon said. “This is an incredible moment for all of us. Never have I experienced anything like Wrigley Field on a nightly basis. ... I want to congratulate you fans also. Thank you for being so patient.”

A victory party is new territory for stoical fans of the Cubs, whose last World Series title – before their Game 7, extra-inning thriller Wednesday night in Cleveland – came in 1908.

The last time the Cubs even reached the Fall Classic was in 1945.

Superstitions die hard. Miriam Santiago, 51, said she carried holy water, her rosary and a bright green lucky baseball with her during the playoffs. On Friday, the Chicago woman brought a goat mask with dynamite in its mouth and let other fans pose for photos wearing it outside the ballpark. Her lucky charms helped reverse the Curse of the Billy Goat,

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ome fans still couldn’t believe it.

Others wanted to savor every moment for family members who didn’t live long enough to see it happen.

Many wanted to be part of history, while others wanted to celebrate the arrival of a new era.

Fittingly, Joe Maddon called the day “Cubstock,” a play on the famed Woodstock music festival.

Cubs nation gathered around Wrigley Field, poured into Grant Park and lined the streets in between on Friday for Chicago’s official celebration of the team’s first World Series title in 108 years.

The rally itself lasted about an hour, with short speeches by a few Cubs players and executives who paid tribute to the city and its loyal fans.

Outfielder and second-baseman Ben Zobrist, named the most valuable player of the World Series, hosted his MVP trophy as he gave credit to his teammates and the fans.

“This is a team of MVPs, and we’re in a city of MVPs,” he said.

Most of those MVPs awoke well before the crack of dawn.

“This is where you want to be, where it all went down,” said J.P. Calkins, an Oswego resident who arrived outside Wrigley Field at 6 a.m. “You want to be here, with the fans you suffered with all these years.”

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Participants in the Chicago Cubs World Series victory celebration parade wave to the crowd gathered outside of Wrigley field as the procession steps off Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in Chicago. lion people assembled along the parade route and in Grant Park.

That figure would put the total number of Cubs fans who descended on the city at nearly double its population of 2.7 million – and about equal the entire population of Cook County.

The crowds in Chicago on Friday began assembling before dawn and led to delays on the roadways and CTA and Metra trains.

When officials opened the gates around Grant Park’s Hutchinson Field, thousands of fans sprinted to get coveted spots near the front of the

stage.

Kevin Serlin was among them.

“I don’t think I’ve run that much in probably two or three years,” said a delighted Serlin, 27, of Ukrainian Village.

Like thousands of those who attended the victory party, Hutchinson didn’t have to skip work; his boss gave him and other coworkers the day off.

“Ever since that last out, I’ve kind of had that Anthony Rizzo feel – that glass case of emotion, on edge, so much excitement, haven’t slept much,” said Serlin, who awoke at 4:45 a.m. Friday.

By 10 a.m. the sky was clear Cubbie

blue, as was the Chicago River, dyed so for the celebration.

An ocean of fans stretched back behind Serlin, pockets of which occasionally whooped and broke into bursts of “Let’s go Cubs!”

The parade began outside Wrigley Field, where Jose Faria wore his Javier Baez jersey with a homemade World Series championship title belt draped over his shoulder.

The amateur wrestler had brought it with him to Game 6 in Cleveland.

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• FANS Continued from page 16 “Some Cleveland fans tried to steal the belt,” said Faria, who wrestled under the Cubs-inspired moniker Loochie Sosa. “I had to give out some sweet chin music to get it back.”

Lifelong Cubs fan Stephanie Foy pulled her daughters, Angela and Amelia, ages 13 and 11, out of school in Des Plaines to attend the rally at the ballpark. She’d also let them stay up late for all the playoff games.

“I wouldn’t let them miss this,” Foy said. “They will probably live to see another World Series, but I may not.

This will be something they’ll remember for the rest of their lives.”

Cubs players waved at the cheering crowds and hoisted the World Series

trophy from the top of double-decker buses. The caravan made its way through Wrigleyville to Lake Shore Drive, which was closed to traffic, and then along the Magnificent Mile and into the Loop. Fans in Cubs attire lined the streets.

Sara Kruscynski, 20, of Hammond, Ind., was waiting for the team in Grant Park. She didn’t hesitate to admit that she’d skipped her organic chemistry class at Ball State University to be at the rally.

“It’s so worth it,” she said.

As was the case with many fans, the day was about more than baseball for Kruscynski. She wanted to enjoy the historic event for herself while thinking about her Cubs-loving grandfather who died a decade ago.

“I’ve already cried twice today,” she said.

But unlike so many previous seasons, many Cubs fans expect to be back in the Series again – and soon.

Wearing custom-made replicas of the Cubs’ 1908 uniforms and makeup to give them a zombie-like pallor, two men who gave their names as “Frank Chance” and “Joe Tinker” – stars of that last championship team – walked away from the rally feeling confident about the future. The pair were part of a group of nine Cubs impersonators who attended games throughout the season, though the other seven didn’t attend the rally in costume.

“We said if they ever won the World Series, we would all crawl back in the grave, but we decided to come out,” the faux Frank said. “I think they’ll be fine with this young ball club they have.

“Of course, we thought we might

have a good (team) in 1909, when we won 104 games, but we didn’t get the pennant….”

Though most of the speeches at the rally didn’t match the electricity in the crowd, the fans didn’t want the day to end.

Brian Sheehan, 35, and his buddy, Vasken Haroian, 35, sat on a piece of flattened cardboard near the edge of the muddy, trash-strewn Hutchinson Field. Both men had tears in their eyes. They had no plans to go home soon. The field was almost empty.

“I’m just soaking it in,” said Haroian, who lives in Waukegan.

Beside him, Sheehan’s shoulders shook as he sobbed, remembering grandparents who were with him Friday only in spirit.

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Kris Bryant’s smile says it all

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ome smiles are more famous than others.

Take Mona Lisa, for instance. Millions of visitors travel to the Louvre every year to see her mysterious grin.

How about Tom Cruise? Julia Roberts? George Clooney? They’re all big stars with million-dollar smiles.

Other smiles are much more personal. Maybe you’re thinking of your wife’s smile as she walked down the aisle. Or maybe you’re envisioning your children’s joyful faces on Christmas morning.

Now, Cubs fans can add another smile to their long-term memory bank.

It belongs to Kris Bryant. It happened in the moments before the Cubs won the World Series.

Side note: Are you used to reading those words yet? The Cubs won the World Series.

If not, don’t worry. You have your entire lifetime to adjust to the new reality. Bryant ushered in that reality.

With two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 7, the Cubs led by a run. History hung in the balance.

For Cubs fans, would the game end in unbridled happiness? Or familiar heartbreak?

Another Cubs team might have choked because of the pressure.

Not this team. Not this year.

In this critical moment, Michael Martinez of the Indians hit a soft dribbler toward third base. The ball bounced three times – first on the dirt in front of home plate, then on the rain-slicked grass to the left of the pitcher’s mound, and finally a few feet past the mound.

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Kris Bryant smiles in the dugout during a recent Cubs game.

Dear Cubs fans: What crossed your mind during the ball’s seemingly harmless bounces?

Were you thrilled? Terrified? Both?

Did you think of your parents and grandparents? Did you flash back to the first time you visited Wrigley Field? Did you reflect upon the years – no, the decades – no, the century – of anguish, of teases, of hope and despair?

Bryant had your back.

As the 24-year-old charged toward Martinez’s ground ball, he did something incredible and unpredictable.

He smiled.

The man smiled.

Here was the most important play in the most important game in Cubs history, and this guy was grinning.

Bryant’s expression was not cocky or smug. It was confident and excited.

It was as if he could see the future as he scooped the ball into his glove with both of his hands – always use two hands, kids – and quickly snapped a throw across the diamond to first baseman Anthony Rizzo.

The throw beat Martinez by two steps.

Then came more smiles.

Smiles on the field as players embraced. Smiles in the clubhouse as champagne rained everywhere. Smiles

on the team bus and the charter flight and everywhere the players looked.

More importantly, though, were the smiles from long-suffering Cubs fans as they watched all over the world.

They smiled in basements and bedrooms and bars. They smiled on lonely interstates and crowded city streets.

They even smiled in Outer Space as NASA posted a congratulatory message on its Twitter account along with a picture of Chicago at night from hundreds of millions of miles away.

Nothing could deter this group of Cubs. Not an early-season injury to long-ball hitter Kyle Schwarber. Not a 2-1 deficit against the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Not a 3-1 deficit against the Indians in the World Series. Not a blown lead by Aroldis Chapman in the eighth inning of Game 7.

Maybe it was meant to end this way.

A soft ground ball. A hard charge

by Bryant. A celebration 108 years in the making.

“That’s one of the best games anybody will ever see,” a breathless Bryant said as he stood on the field during a postgame interview with Fox’s Tom Verducci.

The wait is over. You lived to see it.

The Cubs are World Series champions.

“It’s the best thing I’ve ever heard,” Bryant said. “I’ve never won an award as a team. I’ve always been able to do it individually, but this trumps everything.

“I’m out here crying, man. I’m so happy. I can’t even put into words how this feels.”

No one can, but that’s OK. The smile says it all.

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“You never know. This may be the year.”

Somehow, in the blink of a memory, that year turned into sixty. Sixty years of hopes smashed against the ancient giant green scoreboard of Wrigley Field. Like bugs on a windshield.

And, year after year, I scraped myself off and rejoined the loyal swarm. ’69. ’84. Ernie Broglio. Milton Bradley. HeeSeop Choi. Steve Bartman.

And suddenly, I’m the grandpa sitting with his sons and daughters and grandkids watching the Cubs playing in Game 7 of the World Series.

Three generations together, nervously stress-snacking on chips and dips and tacos and doughnuts and Klondike Bars as our hopes and fears clashed, in of all places, Cleveland.

And then it happened. Pigs flew.

Money grew on trees. The sun rose in

the west. Wishes became horses and beggars rode them. Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds were flying.

Oh, and the Cubs had won the World Series.

So there I sat silently in my bed.

I didn’t hear Rod Sterling hissing something about other dimensions and lands of both shadow and substance. I was still wearing my Cubbie jammies and my underwear and socks were still lying on the floor. Whew … nothing had changed. The Cubs really did win!

The first thing I did was take my Ernie Banks jersey out of the closet and hang it outside on my front porch.

It flopped in the breeze as if whispering, “Let’s play two at the Friendly Confines.”

Then I went into my office and stood in front of my framed collection of vintage Cubs baseballs cards of the entire

1908 championship team. Tinkers, Evers, Chance and the gang.

It was a bit bittersweet to tell them that their 108-year-old streak was over.

That there was a new Cubs world champion team. Russell to Baez to Rizzo and the gang.

But I have a feeling there isn’t any resentment on the old boys’ part.

Perhaps maybe a little surprise that the franchise took so long to finally win again.

Talk about extra innings. Geesh.

• Michael Penkava has been a Cubs fan for more than 60 years. He once caught a home run ball at Wrigley and dove in the basket for another. Catch a video of him produced by the Cubs at “Michael Penkava: It’s a Way of Life MLB.com.” He can be reached at mikepenkava@comcast.net.

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woke up late the morning after. It wasn’t one of those slow, unhurried, adjust-tothe-light-eyelid-raisings, the kind that ease you into the day like that first, tranquil sip of your morning cup of coffee.

Nope, this wake up was signaled by an abrupt, almost panicky opening snap of the eyelids that shook me from night to day like a camera flash at a grade school photo, except in the photograph you could have at least prepared yourself with a protective blink.

Through some insentient linkage of dendrites and axons and muscle tissue, the opening of my eyes was instantaneously merged with a sudden sit-up that would make my old PE teacher proud. There I was, a 90-degreed sitting, pancake-eyed old man frozen in a moment that was indiscernible between past, present and future.

There was only one thought replaying itself in my mind, like the revolving plates at Golden Corral: The Cubs won the World Series! The Cubs won the World Series! The Cubs won the World Series!

And in the haze of the glaze of the daze of that moment, I actually wondered if this was one of those Twilight Zone experiences where you wake up in your bed, but everything has changed. And you fear that what just happened was just a dream that really didn’t come true.

I flashed back to my earliest Cub’s memory: My Grandpa and I walking hand-in-hand on our way to Wrigley Field from his house on Irving Park Road …

“Do you think they’ll win today, Grandpa?”

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