BEVERLY, Ill. - For 11 seasons, he played the most lovable beer drinker in America, but Beverly’s own George Wendt was so much more than Norm from the TV show "Cheers" and he’s been immortalized in his hometown on a street that now bears his name.

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"I love that the street is named George Wendt Way because I feel like it’s a nod to his dad too, ‘Bumpa,’ my grandfather George Wendt Senior, who was so proud of George and all he accomplished," his niece Erin Muldoon Stetson told the large crowd of family and friends.

Wendt, who died in May, was honored with a special mass Sunday morning, including well-wishes posted to a massive sign courtesy of bar patrons from the original "Cheers" bar in Boston.

From there it was a brief walk over to the street dedication—rain or no rain.

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