Chalk messages on the Wrigley Field wall
An image of Cubs manager Joe Maddon is chalked onto the wall on Waveland Avenue near the gate to the bleachers. Large crowds of fans showed up at Wrigley Field in Chicago to add to the chalk wall and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016.
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Large crowds of Cubs fans showed up to add their own chalk remarks to Wrigley Field’s exterior brick walls and take photos. Last chance to leave your message and view the wall will be at 5 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2016.
Security staff had to wriggle a ladder to get a man determined to get his message on the top of the wall.
(Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)Cubs fans take selfies in front of the Wrigley Field walls.
(Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)Cubs fans got one more chance Nov. 8, 2016, to leave their mark, in chalk, on the brick walls along Sheffield and Waveland avenues outside Wrigley Field.
(Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)A pair of young Cubs fans pose against a wall outside Wrigley Field.
(Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)A Cubs fan’s chalky hands.
(Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)Cubs fans got one more chance on Nov. 8, 2016 to leave their mark, in chalk, on the brick walls along Sheffield and Waveland avenues outside Wrigley Field.
(Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)Large crowds of fans showed up at Wrigley Field in Chicago to add to the chalk wall and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Large crowds of fans showed up at Wrigley Field in Chicago to add to the chalk wall and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Large crowds of fans showed up at Wrigley Field in Chicago to add to the chalk wall and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Milo Sagun, Aliya and her twin sister Kira Limon, look at messages in support of the Cubs’ championship run and in remembrance of friends and family who never saw the Cubs win the World Series, written and drawn in chalk on an outer wall at Wrigley Field on Nov. 7, 2016,
(Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)A remembrance of a family member who never saw the Cubs win the World Series, is written in chalk on an outfield wall outside Wrigley Field on Nov. 7, 2016, in Chicago.
(Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)Messages in support of the Cubs’ championship run and in remembrance of friends and family who never saw the Cubs win the World Series, are written and drawn in chalk on an outer wall at Wrigley Field on Nov. 7, 2016.
(Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)Claire Dettrich photographs Kevin Montgomery and his 6-month old daughter Margo, along the right field wall on Sheffield Ave., where some have left messages in support of the Cubs’ championship run and in remembrance of friends and family who never saw the Cubs win the World Series at Wrigley Field on Nov. 7, 2016.
(Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)Shannon and Matthew Brokenshire of Elmhurst hold up their 4-month-old daughter Mackenna near the Wrigley Field wall on the Waveland Avenue side of the stadium. Large crowds of fans showed up to add to the chalk wall and take photos on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Deidre Wiza, of Hoffman Estates, brings her cat, Coco, dressed in a Cubs shirt, down to Wrigley Field and has an encounter with a dog in its own Cubs attire. Large crowds of fans showed up at ballpark to scribble on the chalk wall and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016. Wiza wrote Coco’s name on the wall.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Matthew Brokenshire, of Elmhurst, holds up his 4-month-old daughter, Mackenna, who is wearing a shirt with W in front of the painted “We Did Not Suck” sign on the Waveland Avenue side of Wrigley Field. Large crowds of fans showed up at the ballpark to add their own remarks to the chalk wall and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Corina Huizenga, 9, of Crown Point, writes on the Wrigley Field’s brick wall along Waveland Avenue. Numerous fans showed up at the ballpark to add their own remarks to the wall and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Large crowds of fans showed up at Wrigley Field to add their own remarks in chalk to the ballpark’s brick walls and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Deidre Wiza, of Hoffman Estates, brings her cat Coco, dressed in a Cubs shirt, down to Wrigley Field’s new “chalk” wall. Wiza wrote Coco’s name on the wall. Large crowds of fans showed up at the ballpark to add their own comments to the chalk wall and take photos on Nov. 6, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Cubs fan Rahaf Rihani chalks a message on a wall outside Wrigley Field the day after the Cubs won the World Series on Nov. 3, 2016.
(Scott Olson / Getty Images)The brick wall on Sheffield Avenue is chalked with good luck wishes and names. Scenes around Wrigley Field during Game 5 of the World Series on Oct. 30, 2016.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Well wishes to the Cubs and remembering deceased fans are written in chalk on an wall outside of Wrigley Field on Nov. 1, 2016.
(Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)Neighbors to Wrigley Field look at the well wishes written in chalk on the left field wall outside the ballpark on Oct. 6, 2016.
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