How many people were at Cubs World Series parade?

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A parade 108 years in the making deserves a good turnout. Exactly how many fans showed at the Cubs’ World Series parade?

When Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the Chicago Cubs‘ victory parade would be held today, fans started making plans. Well, five million of them, to be exact. That’s how many are estimated to have attended the parade today which extended from Wrigley Field to Grant Park:

The Blackhawks, White Sox and Bulls have all celebrated titles in recent years with parades that packed the city. After the Hawks’ celebration in 2015, nobody would have thought there would be a bigger parade. Approximately two million showed and the streets were flooded with red. Little did the city know they would be in for an even larger celebration just over a year later.

As passionate as the city is for their Hockey team, they showed they’re doubly passionate about the Cubs. The streets were flooded with red and (mainly) blue prompting Cubs’ manager Joe Maddon to anoint the celebration as “Cubstock 2016” when addressing the fans today.

If you were wondering what five million is compared to the actual population of Chicago? Well, it’s just a shade under double the estimated 2.7 million who live in the city. Amazingly enough, the massive turnout didn’t stop Cleveland fans from trying to throw shade at the Chicago parade.

I hate to break it to you Cleveland, but five million is a whole lot more than the estimated 1.3 million who turned out when the Cavaliers won the NBA title in June. Can’t we all just be happy and worry about our own teams?

Now that the whole city has had their opportunity to celebrate the win, the quest to repeat can begin. If they are able to complete a repeat, who knows how many people will attend next year’s parade…six million? Seven? I guess we shouldn’t get too far ahead of ourselves.

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