--- title: Chicago Cubs World Series: Even President Obama Is Happy description: Chicagoans rejoiced Saturday after the Cubs made history by reaching the World Series for the first time since 1945 canonical: https://time.com/4541983/president-obama-chicago-cubs-world-series/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-23T18:02:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:54.131Z og:title: Even President Obama Is Happy the Cubs Are Going to the World Series og:description: The White Sox fan was still happy to see the victory og:url: https://time.com/4541983/president-obama-chicago-cubs-world-series/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0275d7bf00890fec/6988ab292dce01015e9eb22d/obama5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-OBAMA-BET og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Even President Obama Is Happy the Cubs Are Going to the World Series twitter:description: The White Sox fan was still happy to see the victory twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0275d7bf00890fec/6988ab292dce01015e9eb22d/obama5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Even President Obama Is Happy the Cubs Are Going to the World Series > Sponsored content. 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Oct 23, 2016 6:02 PM UTC Chicagoans rejoiced Saturday after the Cubs made history by [reaching the World Series](http://time.com/4541896/chicago-cubs-national-league-world-series-dodgers/) for the first time since 1945. The excitement even reached President Obama. Although he is a lifelong Chicago White Sox fan, Obama extended his congratulations to the team and fans on Saturday. “Even this White Sox fan was happy to see Wrigley rocking last night,” Obama wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/790236602584948736) Democratic presidential nominee and Chicago native Hillary Clinton looked [thrilled at the news](http://people.com/politics/hillary-clinton-finds-out-chicago-cubs-world-series-win-photo/) aboard her campaign airplane, according to a tweet from her traveling press secretary Nick Merrill. > [](https://twitter.com/NickMerrill/status/790025462579888128) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4541983/president-obama-chicago-cubs-world-series/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4541983/president-obama-chicago-cubs-world-series/"},"headline":"Even President Obama Is Happy the Cubs Are Going to the World Series","datePublished":"2016-10-23T18:02:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:54.131Z","description":"The White Sox fan was still happy to see the victory","url":"https://time.com/4541983/president-obama-chicago-cubs-world-series/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Baseball"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0275d7bf00890fec/6988ab292dce01015e9eb22d/obama5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0275d7bf00890fec/6988ab292dce01015e9eb22d/obama5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-OBAMA-BET","caption":"US-POLITICS-OBAMA-BET","creditText":"Molly Riley—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4541983/president-obama-chicago-cubs-world-series/","name":"Even President Obama Is Happy the Cubs Are Going to the World Series"}}]}] ```