Chicago ? Loud music blared over the city’s South Side on Wednesday night, and one needed only to look up at the balcony of Nativity of our Lord Catholic Church to find its source.

The White Sox had won the World Series, and for the Rev. Dan Brandt, it was time to party down.

Father Brandt jumped with glee from his office in the heart of the South Side, then ran from the room to ring the church bells and play “Let’s Go Go Go White Sox!” – the theme song for Chicago’s 1959 World Series appearance – when the game ended.

But his main focus was to keep those bells clanging.

“They’re going to keep ringing for at least several hours, maybe longer,” said Brandt, as parishioners around him, who had gathered to watch the game together, hugged and smiled.

Firecrackers blasted, car horns blared and fans flooded into the streets of the Windy City to celebrate the city’s first World Series championship since 1917 after the White Sox beat the Astros, 1-0, Wednesday, completing the series sweep.

After seven scoreless innings, series MVP Jermaine Dye singled home Willie Harris for the game’s only run in the eighth. On a night when pitching dominated, winner Freddy Garcia and Houston’s Brandon Backe dueled through seven in innings of shutout ball, with Backe allowing four hits and Garcia five. They each struck out seven.

At the last out, fans who had gathered to watch together at the United Center began jumping and hugging. One man who joined the throng screamed into a cell phone with tears in his eyes: “We did it! We did it! We did it!”