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CHICAGO -- Matt Ridley climbed his ladder, scrawled a tribute to his deceased loved ones and high fived his mom when his feet hit the sidewalk.The Cubs winning it all still seemed a bit surreal to him. Yet, there he was writing Ridley Nation high on the brick bleacher wall along Waveland Avenue in honor of his brother, father and uncle.Every time I hear the call of the last out, it almost sounds like its not real -- like its a joke, Ridley said Monday.No joke, the Chicago Cubs at long last won the World Series when they beat the Cleveland Indians last week. And their first championship in 108 years stirred all sorts of emotions.Fans who werent sure they would ever see it happen have been thinking about loved ones who never got to witness it. Theyve been flowing to Wrigley Field in a steady stream, turning the walls and sidewalks outside the famed ballpark into one gigantic chalkboard.The bricks beyond the ivy are jammed with names and notes to family members. There are messages encouraging the team, and drawings, too.It was all in chalk, and it was all about to go away.The Cubs announced Monday they need to remove the messages and artwork due to offseason construction. Fans had until 5 p.m. CST Tuesday, though some were still adding to the walls sidewalks after the deadline. The team also said final photographs will be taken and displayed publicly at a later date.Fans started writing encouraging messages to the team in chalk on the walls outside the bleachers during the run to the Cubs first championship since 1908, and they have continued in such a steady stream there is little room left anywhere outside the ballpark, be it outside the bleachers or near the marquee.Along Sheffield Avenue, beyond right field, Kathleen and Bob Dove of Evanston found a spot a few feet up the wall to pay tribute to her mother. They colored a brick in light blue chalk and wrote Dorothy McGuire in white.The whole time I grew up, it revolved around the Cubs game -- meals, Kathleen Dove said. She knew all the players every year. She would tell me all the statistics, this will be the year. She was a very typical diehard, I mean just brutally diehard, Cubs fan. She would be really amazed at this.Bob Dove, a retired sound technician for Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW, recalled working on a documentary about Bill Veeck Jr. during the last year of his life. And he has little doubt Veeck would have loved the scene playing out along the streets outside Wrigley.We have all of this angst about immigrants and racial animus and all that stuff, Bob Dove said. The Cubs victory is the greatest thing to happen in Chicago right now because everything else thats going on right now is so negative. Veeck would love this wall because its representative of his philosophy of being a team for everyone. And he was the person that integrated the American League.Bill Veeck went to work for the Cubs when his father Bill Sr. was team president and was responsible for the ivy being planted in 1937. He also integrated the American League as owner of the Cleveland Indians when he signed Larry Doby and frequently hung out in the Wrigley Field bleachers after selling the White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf in 1981.Kim Bresnahan of Evanston was on the phone with her friend Nana Sedor in Homer, Alaska, as she looked for space on the wall along Sheffield. Bresnahan was there to pay tribute to her ex-husbands father as well as her friends brother Chris, a loyal fan who died at 16.This victory was for every underdog in the world, Nana Sedor said.The two friends have been following the Cubs for decades, going back to the black cat and the collapse against the New York Mets in 1969. They recalled ditching school to go to Wrigley Field as teenagers and cheer on those Lovable Losers. In some ways, this championship run was like a shock to the system -- a glorious shock to the system.In our lives, we dont have a lot of hope, Bresnahan said. Theres a lot of bad stuff going on. And its like, `Oh my God, if the Cubs can do it in 108 years, we can do anything. Right?Lifelong Cubs fan Becky Ellous cried when the championship drought ended and thought about her grandfather Frank Sokol, who died five years ago at age 87. To him, the Cubs were bozos, yet he would watch every game no matter how bad they were.This would have made him so happy, Ellous said. He would have loved every single minute of it.Along Waveland Avenue, Ridley said he started bawling listening to Eddie Vedders Someday Well Go All The Way heading to the ballpark on Monday.He came with his 12-year-old son Matthew Jr., and his mom Nancy Ridley, who grew up on Addison a few blocks from the famed marquee. 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Ocon, who is contracted to Mercedes despite being a Renault reserve driver, stuck to the medium compound tyre for the entire morning session as he completed 80 laps in three and a half hours for the world champions.Third fastest was GP2 driver and Williams reserve Alex Lynn, who was a further 1.6s off the pace of Ocon and 3.1s off the pace of Alonso. He completed 38 laps over the course of the morning and finished the session with a time 0.013s quicker than GP3 and Ferrari Academy driver Charles Leclerc. The 18-year-old Leclerc was making his F1 debut for Ferrari after a successful run with Haas during first practice for the British GP.Force India rookie Nikita Mazepin kicked off the first of his two days of tessting with the fifth fastest time, 0.dddddddddddd22s quicker than Toro Rosso regular Carlos Sainz. Santino Ferrucci also made his debut in the Haas with 53 laps of the Silverstone circuit and a best lap of 1:34.866.Pascal Wehrlein swapped his Manor for a 2014 Mercedes as he embarked on 2017 tyre testing for Pirelli. Although the tyres were the same size as the current specification, the construction materials and compounds are prototypes for the new wider tyres set to be introduced next year. Wehrlein is still contracted to Mercedes and ran under No.23 -- one of the teams testing numbers -- rather than his usual 94.Wehrlein was 0.649s quicker than his Manor teammate Rio Haryanto, who in turn was quicker than Sergey Sirotkin in the Renault. Pierre Gasly finished the morning at the foot of the timesheets after just seven laps in the Red Bull. The opening two laps were completed with a prototype Halo head protection device attached, but with a best time 12 seconds off the pace none of his running was representative of the true pace of the car.*Pascal Wehrlein was running a 2014-spec Mercedes W05 and testing Pirelli prototype tyres ' ' '