Level 3: Charles Reed

Historical marker location:

103 N Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Ottawa Street (U.S. 6) and Van Buren Street.)

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.