To celebrate the Cubs winning the World Series for the first time in 108 years, Chicago is hosting a victory parade today. I know, I know, I think a parade is a bit much, too—I didn't see New York throw a victory parade when the Yankees won their third World Series—but who are we to argue with a municipality. Anyway, Chicago is officially lit, as it has been since Wednesday night, and there is a whole mess of people gathering to continue the festivities this afternoon.The Cubs are supposed to leave Wrigley field at around 10:00 a.m. local time and then make their way downtown to Lower Hutchinson Field for a rally at noon, so all these folks are getting spots now. It's almost hypnotic, watching this mass of humanity stream and filter itself through security in a somewhat orderly fashion. Streets were reportedly closed as early as 4 a.m. this morning and the commuter rail service Metra was expecting such an increase in people and delays that they were actually telling folks to telecommute to work if they didn't want to get stuck in the revelry.One good thing, though: kids didn't have to skip school today because it was already a planned day off. Another good thing, or not, depending on your point of view: the city is trying to make it very hard for people to be drunk so no drinking on the commuter rails and officials warned "there will be zero tolerance for drinking on the public way." They've got to try, anyway.When you finally get to go to something you've been waiting 108 years for #FlyTheW pic.twitter.com/wjOlykuWJu
— NBC Chicago (@nbcchicago) November 4, 2016