Surviving Hard Times

Historical marker location:

1705 Broadway Ave, Mattoon, Illinois

( Marker is at the intersection of Broadway Avenue and South 17th Street, on the right when traveling east on Broadway Avenue.)

The Chicago Cubs baseball team has the longest championship drought in North American professional sports history. The Cubs won their last World Series in 1908, and they famously ended their 108-year championship drought by winning the World Series in 2016.