Trail Blazer

Historical marker location:

312 N State St, Chicago, Illinois

( Marker is on North State Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1962

Sleipner. First vessel direct from Europe destined for Chicago.

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.