For the first time since 1945, the Chicago Cubs have made it to the World Series — and they’re looking to secure their first win since 1908.

As the series is tied with Game 7 played tonight, Cubs fans around the country are making certain to soak up every moment, even as the clock ticks down to a final score that might mean more heartache for the team.

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After the team secured the National League pennant, Chicago fans made pilgrimages to Wrigley Field. Fans milled outside the stadium for hours, six were arrested for various forms of disorderly conduct, and nine people were hospitalized, ABC News reported. Leave it to Chicago, with the highest rates of gun violence in the country, to hospitalize those celebrating baseball.

Stores selling Cubs merchandise saw a rush of patronage, ABC reported. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner authorized state employees to wear Cubs hats and jerseys in the workplace during the World Series. Now that’s devotion!

Meanwhile, Chicago landmarks have also gotten into the act. The massive bronze lions guarding the entrance to the justifiably famous Chicago Institute of Art have giant Cubs baseball caps atop their kingly manes. The institute also tweeted out hilarious images of famous paintings altered for the Cubs.

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The legendary “Nighthawks” painting by Edward Hopper sports one man in a Cubs jersey and another in a Cubs hat. Picasso’s “Old Guitarist” now wears a Cubs jacket. Caillebotte’s 1877 painting “Paris Street: Rainy Day” has been humorously modified so that men in top hats sports Cubs T-shirts and red-and-blue umbrellas.

Another famous locale — the Marshall Field’s on State Street — is alive with a string of “Cubs Win” flags. What’s that at the UBS Tower, not far from the Sears Tower? Someone has added the Cubs’ “C” logo to “UBS.” Over at the Tribune Tower, a “Cubs Win” flag has been placed right below the American flag on the flagpole.

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Did you ever catch Brian DePalma’s terrific 1987 film, “The Untouchables”? There’s a climactic shootout on the steps of Union Station, which is now adorned with a massive “Cubs Win” flag. You’d better believe those flags are flying in terminals at O’Hare Airport as well.

Chicago’s single-most popular tourist destination is not any of the above, though. It’s the massive Centennial Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier, now adored with a massive “W” for “win” in the center.

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Blue Cross/Blue Shield is not only celebrating its increasing Obamacare health insurance premiums — it’s celebrating the team by arranging its lights to read “GO CUBS GO.”

Meanwhile, photos are popping up on social media of homes in the Chicago area replacing their boring white outdoor lights with the blue and red team colors.

Two Los Angeles-based Cubs fans, and Chicago natives, told LifeZette they hold large house parties for all their like-minded fan friends — house parties usually reserved for the Super Bowl.

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“We think of this as a historic event,” one said. “While we hope that this is the beginning of a dynasty, we are just as concerned that this is the only time in our lifetime that the Cubs will be in the World Series. It deserves a celebration.”

Indeed, it is historic in American sports. In one of the last bastions of merit-based success, sports retains its hold on the American public and is a fine antidote — with its expression of goodwill — for the insane electoral season.