Celebrate Chicago's historic World Series win with these Chicago red panda cubs

Red panda cubs in Chicago, before the Chicago Cubs won the World Series — (Image credit: AP/YouTube)

The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago welcomed the birth of a pair of endangered red pandas over the summer, and after a few months, they came out to play (and climb trees) last month. "It's a really neat link between the red panda cubs and the Chicago Cubs, because they're named after the streets around Wrigley Field," Mark Kamhout, the mammal curator at the Lincoln Park Zoo, told The Associated Press. On Wednesday night, the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years. But even if you wanted the Cleveland Indians to win, you can still escape the early-fall and pre-election darkness with a short video of Sheffield and Waveland just being themselves, making the world a little brighter. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.