The First Chicago-Area Baby Of 2017 Is Named Wrigley

By Stephen Gossett in News on Jan 2, 2017 5:16PM

Hey, remember that time the Cubs won the World Series? Perhaps you preserved the moment by writing the name of a loved on the Wrigley Field brick wall, or snapped a photo with the Commissioner’s Trophy for posterity. Or maybe you named your newborn child, who happened to be the first baby born in the Chicago area, Wrigley.

Technically, the name Wrigley Rose was chosen before the Cubs won it all and the bandwagoneering went bonkers, proud and perhaps semi-defensive papa Aaron Dalbey was certain to point out in the Tribune. Either way, congrats to Aaron and Ellen Dalbey who delivered Wrigley at 12:12 a.m. at AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, according to news accounts, making the Cubs-affiliated kiddo in 2017 what the Cubs were in 2016: first.

Cubs kids aren’t new, of course. Perhaps you remember the semi-irritating media play received by twins Addison and Clark in October. But this confluence of first-of-the-year arrivals and baseball christening appears to be a full-blown trend: there were a whole host of Cubs-y early birds on Sunday morning, the Tribune pointed out. Say hello and tip your ball cap here.