Millions flood Chicago streets for Cubs victory parade

The 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.

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