ticker tape after the chicago white sox wins this year's world series trophy. after a highly-publicized parade through most of chicago's south side neighborhoods - bridgeport, bronzeville, chinatown, pilsen among others - this is what the news outlets left out.



that's 20,000 pounds of shredded chicago sun-times newspapers. it took a shredding crew six hours to turn that paper into ticker tape to rain on the crowds and the motorcade, the players and the grandstand.

at 11 a.m. on a fall friday, with the sun already slanting a beautiful gold, every single one of those 1.75 million who watched the parade played hooky at either work and school. ahahaha.

crews worked overnight thursday trying to put the event together. still in bright neon green and orange uniform, they waved out of the crowd and the sox waved back.

this debris serves as nice b roll, and after i took this pix, a cameraman saw me and decided to follow suit:





grrr. i hate copycats. :-/

so i walked away since i wasn't supposed to be there anymore anyways, and further south on lasalle street to the dead end of lasalle and jackson, the streets somewhat returned to normal:



along lasalle avenue, there's old photographs of ticker tape raining on a parade as well. i never stopped to look what the city celebrated then, but it is totally a nice touch to celebrate on the streets today rather than en masse at some park.

the blocks along lasalle, madison, wacker, jackson and clark - chicago's financial district, the "canyon" - reminded me of black and white world war 2 photographs where sailors and families celebrated and tried to find each other in the rain of confetti. so rare, and uber nostalgic.  ¶ 10/28/2005 07:54:00 PM