{"id":442234,"date":"2026-10-30T05:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442234\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T05:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:34:47","slug":"milwaukee-closing-schools-friday-for-brewers-world-series-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442234\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee closing schools Friday for Brewers\u2019 World Series parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE \u2014 Milwaukee could come to a standstill as fans celebrate the Brewers\u2019 first World Series title.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee schools will close and thousands of fans are expected to line the streets for a victory parade Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The small-market Brewers gave their long-suffering fans the title they had been waiting for with a 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/10\/28\/milwaukee-brewers-win-first-world-series-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clinching the series in five games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Brewers fans filled Tropicana Field \u2014 nearly outnumbering Rays fans \u2014 and celebrated from the stands after the final out. Thousands more celebrated back in Milwaukee, where the party will continue with Friday\u2019s parade.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Public Schools canceled classes Friday so fans can enjoy the parade that will run through downtown Milwaukee and conclude with a fan fest at Henry Maier Festival Park, not far from the shore of Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Maxwell, the presiding judge in neighboring Waukesha County, declared Brewers attire will be formally considered \u201cin compliance with professional decorum expected of courtroom staff, litigants and attorneys appearing before the court\u201d through the conclusion of the victory parade.<\/p>\n<p>One fan who joined the queue to get tickets for the rally at American Family Insurance Amphitheater said he was behind 34,000 people \u2014 at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A large police presence is expected for the parade to handle the big crowds and heavy traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise originated as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 before moving to Milwaukee and becoming the Brewers the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee has celebrated a World Series title once before. The Milwaukee Braves won the 1957 World Series over the New York Yankees before moving to Atlanta in 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Milwaukee could come to a standstill as fans celebrate the Brewers\u2019 first World Series title. Milwaukee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[172454,81664,202,204,203,199,201,200,78290,172455],"class_list":["post-442234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-brewers-parade","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-world-series","tag-world-series-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}