HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. -- They went on their first date to a Valentine dance a few years after the Cubs lost the 1945 World Series. In the seven decades between that night and this one, Rene and Helene Van Hulle raised four kids, losing one of them a decade ago. They moved from the North Side to the suburbs, finally ending up here, in a small apartment with yellow walls, in their respective recliners, waiting on the another World Series game to begin. She's 83, and he's 88. He's on oxygen all the time, dying, in the care of a hospice nurse.
The last World Series Rene Van Hulle will ever see
