CHICAGO — The $845 million sale of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and other assets from the Tribune Co. to the Ricketts family was completed Tu...
Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago
A Naples, Fla. Group aiming to lure the Cubs from their spring training site in Mesa, Ariz. has met twice with incoming owner Tom Ricketts and club ch...
AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
WILMINGTON, Del. — The sale of the Chicago Cubs moved closer Tuesday as a bankruptcy court judge said the team can go to the family of billionai...
AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
NEW YORK — The Chicago Cubs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, a step that will allow their owner to sell the baseball team in a...
AP | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP)--Major League baseball owners have unanimously approved the sale of the Chicago Cubs from Tribune Co. to the Ricketts family. ...
Bloomberg News | Christopher Stern | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago
U.S. antitrust officials approved Tribune Co.'s sale of the Chicago Cubs baseball team to the Ricketts family, which founded TD Ameritrade Holding Co....
AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday approved Tribune Co.'s request for quick court action on the company's planned sale of ...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago
After months of intense negotiations to buy the Chicago Cubs, the Ricketts family threw a curveball at Tribune Co. late last month. The family gave t...
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigl...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago
The sale of the Cubs to the Ricketts family is "imminent," sources said Thursday....
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The corporate owner of the Chicago Cubs is considering having the baseball team file for bankruptcy protection as a legal step to hast...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The Tribune Co. has reached a written agreement to sell the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and other assets to the family of TD Ameritrad...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 07.28.2009 | Chicago
The Ricketts family's bid to buy the Chicago Cubs from Tribune Co. is gaining momentum, a week after the media company said it was "assessing other al...
Reuters | Ben Klayman and Megan Davies | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago
Talks to sell the storied Chicago Cubs baseball team have reopened with a rival bidding group, and are continuing alongside negotiations with the orig...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago
As talks with Tribune Co. grind on, [Tom] Ricketts, an investment banker who lives in Wilmette, has held separate discussions with a handful of celebr...
Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago
Sports Business Journal reports today that Tom Ricketts has lined up three banks--JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America--to arrange the $450 m...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.06.2009 | Chicago
The sale of the Chicago Cubs has taken on the timeless quality of a baseball game. ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago
Tom Ricketts is offering private investors a stake in the Chicago Cubs as he works to finance a $900-million acquisition of the team by his family. C...
AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 02.22.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — A billionaire family of Chicago Cubs fans _ including one who first met his wife in the bleachers at Wrigley Field _ is set to purchas...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
The sale of the Chicago Cubs has come down to three finalists, nearly two years after the team's owner, Tribune Co., put the storied franchise and Wri...
AP | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago