Via Illinigirl, Normal had to control the Illinois State students after the win over the Braves.

ORMAL — A crowd of roughly 3,000 made its way around town in the vicinity of the Illinois State University campus Sunday night, following the Chicago Cubs’ decisive win over the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field in Atlanta, Ga.

Normal police were joined by officers from the McLean County Sheriff’s Department in their effort to control traffic and crowds near the intersection of Mulberry Street and Fell Avenue, where the throng started to grow at about 10:35 p.m. Parts of Fell and College avenues were blocked off by police.

Over the course of more than an hour, the raucous crowd headed for the quad, Hancock Stadium, Redbird Arena and Kingsley Junior High School, where a goal post was partially knocked down.

There were apparently no injuries late Sunday or early this morning. The crowd had thinned down to about 500 by midnight, police said.

The goal post is sort of funny–sort of not given it is vandalism, but in 1984 when the Cubs went to the playoffs both of ISU’s goalposts were torn down in the worst riot the town has ever seen. Strangely, the town made national news over a much tamer mini-riot over new rules on keg parties around that time.

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