PORTAGE PARK — City Newsstand, 4018 N. Cicero Ave., ordered 500 copies of Wednesday's New York Times, expecting customers would want to memorialize a historic moment.
But history took a sharp turn Tuesday night in a direction owner Joe Angelastri — like many others — did not expect. And on Thursday afternoon, nearly all the newspapers lay untouched at his feet.
"We were expecting something like after Obama won in '08, when everyone wanted a copy," Angelastri said, brushing off a waist-high stack of papers headlined "Trump Triumphs" behind the store's counter.
City Newsstand also ordered more than 1,000 copies of Wednesday's Tribune, but the newspaper canceled its order after cutting back on the number of issues it would print late Tuesday night, Angelastri said.
All told, customers ended up buying "maybe 35" copies of the paper, he said, about the typical demand for any given day.
Angelastri will likely keep the bundles of papers "until the end of the week," then throw them out, he said.
Meanwhile, the store still has several stacks of both Tribune and Sun-Times papers from Nov. 3, the day after the Cubs won the World Series.
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