Millions flood Chicago streets for Cubs victory parade

Chicago fans gather in the street to watch the Chicago Cubs take on the Cleveland Indians in Cleveland in game seven of the 2016 World Series, near Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois late on November 2, 2016The streets of Chicago were bathed in Cubs blue Friday as millions of tearful, elated baseball fans cheered their World Series-winning team — who brought the championship home for the first time in 108 years. Parts of downtown Chicago, the third-largest US city, were shut down as an estimated five million people lined the miles-long parade route from Wrigley Field to Grant Park, where the players were hailed at a huge rally. "We've all dreamed of this so many times over the years, and this has exceeded our wildest dreams," Theo Epstein, the team's president of baseball operations, told fans.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/millions-flood-chicago-streets-cubs-victory-parade-210711848–mlb.html

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