Lake Park High School grad Tony Randazzo, who has spent 17 years as an umpire in Major League Baseball, will be part of the officiating crew for the World Series with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs.

Veteran umpire John Hirschbeck will be the crew chief for the series, according to a report by mlb.com. The rest of the crew includes Chris Guccione, Sam Holbrook, Marvin Hudson, Randazzo and regular-season crew chiefs Larry Vanover and Joe West.

This will be Hirschbeck’s fifth World Series, and Randazzo’s first. Randazzo has worked two All-Star Games (2001, 2012) and two league championship series (2010, 2015) and several division series.

Randazzo, 51, was born in Chicago and graduated from Roselle’s Lake Park High School in 1983. He joined the MLB umpiring staff in 1999. His father, George, is the founder of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame , which is based in Chicago.

Game 1 of the World Series is tonight in Cleveland.

Flying the W in Elk Grove Village

Longtime Cubs fan Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson had to do a little redecorating outside the village’s municipal complex after his favorite team clinched the National League pennant Saturday night.

He proudly draped the W flag on the large elk statue at the corner of Biesterfield Road and Wellington Avenue, to the delight of motorists driving by.

“From all the horns honking that drove by watching me do it, I think it was very well received,” Johnson said.

Game 1 of the World Series falls tonight at the same time as a village board meeting. But Johnson is such a big Cubs fan, his staff surprised him during the Cubs’ 2003 playoff run when they installed mini TVs on the village board dais so he and trustees could watch.

— By Christopher Placek/

cplacek@dailyherald.com

A little bit of Cleveland in the suburbs

Suburban Cubs fans can have an authentic Progressive Field experience without traveling to Cleveland for the World Series.

All they need to do is hit a Heinen’s Fine Foods in Barrington, Bannockburn, Lake Bluff or Glenview.

Based in northeastern Ohio, Heinen’s suburban locations sell iconic Cleveland items such as Bertman Original Ball Park Mustard, which has been part of Indians baseball for about 90 years. Bertman is the old world-style brown mustard fans will slap on hot dogs while watching the Cubs and Indians at Progressive Field.

Bertman was at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1948, when the Indians defeated the Boston Braves for their last World Series win.

— By Bob Susnjara/bsusnjara@dailyherald.com