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SWEET HOME CHICAGO

People of a “certain age” can recall how exciting Chicago Cubs’ television broadcasts on superstation WGN were (“CUBS WIN!”

Harry would bellow) and just how good the North Side had it in the early- to mid-’80s.

Or, really, how good all of Chicago had it in 1984:

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