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player ready...Matthew Talley’s family says the 33-year-old passionate Cubs fan who was killed in a car accident the day the Cubs clinched the World Series win would be overjoyed.
“He’d be over the moon,” said his sister-in-law Kim Talley on Friday. “He’s in heaven now with a bunch of people whooping it up. He’s with Harry Caray and his grandfather and aunt.”
Western Springs police say Talley, who worked in sales at Willowbrook Ford, was killed in a one-car accident in the 4400 block of Gilbert Avenue at 12:18 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2. About 24 hours later, the Cubs won the seventh game in the World Series against the Cleveland Indians.
Talley, who was driving a 2014 Ford Focus, struck two utility poles. He was unresponsive when police responded, and was taken to Loyola Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Although his family is not sure where he had been before the accident, they believe he had been watching the Game 6 in the Cubs-Indians series and was heading home because he had to work early the next day.
Talley grew up in Western Springs and in La Grange, where he attended St. Cletus Catholic School. He graduated from Lyons Township High School in 2001.
His mother, Andrea, said she will remember most “his smile and his sense of humor,” which is exemplified by an ironic saying he often repeated: “Life is all rainbows and roses in Western Springs.”
Being a Cub fan was a tradition passed down in the family for Talley, who also was a Chicago Bears and Blackhawks fan.
“He was passionate about the Cubs, especially now,” Kim Talley. “He was a huge Chicago sports fan. He went to a lot of games. He knew every player. Every stat. He was diehard.”
Western Springs police say there was a witness to the accident in which Talley was killed. The witness was a motorcyclist who, according to deputy police chief Brian Budds, was not involved in the accident.
Budds said the department is interviewing the motorcyclist about events related to accident.
The department “is actively investigating the motorcyclist’s accounts of the events relating to the crash,” he said in an email.
The family is asking anyone with information about the accident to contact police at 708-246-8540.
“We don’t have all the details. We’re encouraging the public to assist police,” Kim Talley said.
A funeral Mass will take place at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 at St. Cletus Catholic Church, 600 W. 55th St., La Grange. Friends are invited to remember Talley at Rafferty’s Irish Pub, 10901 Joliet Rd., Countryside, starting at 11 a.m.
“Everyone is invited to wear their Cubs sports gear and celebrate his life,” Kim Talley said.
In addition to his mother and sister-in-law, Talley is survived by his father, George; a brother, Eugene; a sister, Melissa; and by two nieces.
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