Wrigley Field

Alderman: Extend Wrigley Field Vendor Ban

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 06.30.2009 | Chicago


Peddlers would be banned from sidewalks in a two-block area around Wrigley Field under a proposal introduced at today's City Council meeting....

Wrigley Field Hotel Project Agrees To Reduce Height

Chicago Sun-Times | DAVID ROEDER | Posted 06.03.2009 | Chicago


Developers in Lake View have learned a lesson: If you want to build near Wrigley Field, you give the old park a little respect. Don't build higher tha...

What Wonders He Has Seen

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment


Roger I. Abrams

On Saturday, April 24, we went to Fenway Park to see Arthur Giddon, the Red Sox honorary bat boy. Also scheduled was a match bet...

Luna Carpet Jingle Invades Wrigley Field (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago


As if Wrigley Field weren't commercialized enough, Cubs fans now have to endure the sound of Luna Carpet's phone number jingle every time a Cubs playe...

Cubs Opening Day: Goat Head Found Hanging Outside Wrigley Field

AP | Posted 04.13.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO - As if the rain and cold weather threatening the Chicago Cubs' home opener against the Colorado Rockies weren't enough, there's another goat ...

Captain Morgan Club Coming To Wrigley Field

mlb.com | Carrie Muskat | Posted 04.07.2009 | Chicago


The Cubs announced Tuesday they have a partnership with Captain Morgan and Harry Caray's Restaurant Group to present the Captain Morgan Club, a year-r...

New Ballpark Food: White Sox Getting A Wine Bar

Chicago Tribune | Phil Vettel | Posted 04.02.2009 | Chicago


And wine by the glass at the Cell? Believe it; a wine bar (actually a free-standing cart) on the lower level, along the first-base line, will dispense...

Wrigley Field Advertising: Under Armour Ads Not Going Anywhere

Reuters | Posted 04.01.2009 | Chicago


The Chicago Cubs baseball team and athletic apparel maker Under Armour Inc (UA.N) have reached a deal for the company to continue as the only advertis...

For Sale: Reasonably-Sized City on Western Bank of Lake Michigan

Michael Roston | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago


Michael Roston

Wrigley, Sears, and Marshall Field's were all old money. But they were old Chicago money, a sign of how this unique place had emerged where once there was a swamp that stunk of wild onions.

Wrigley Field Mulling Seat Licenses, Flat Screens

Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 01.19.2009 | Chicago


If the conversation with management were any indication, Cubs fans want functioning TV monitors to watch replays from the grandstands, wider seats in ...

Winter Classic Kicks Off New Year: Will it be Any Better?

Jon Greenberg | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago


Jon Greenberg

What do Chicago sports fans have to look forward to in 2009, aside from Hawk Harrelson and bad singing at Wrigley?

Wrigley Field Rooftops Cleared To Sell Winter Classic Hockey Tickets

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago


Rooftop clubs with a bird's-eye view of Wrigley Field got the go-ahead Wednesday to cash in on the NHL's New Year's Day Winter Classic. At the reques...

Wrigleyville Can Skate On Field January 4th

Chicago Tribune | Posted 12.15.2008 | Chicago


Would you pay $10 to skate at the Friendly Confines? If you're a neighbor of the Cubs, you're about to get that opportunity. The Cubs sent e-mails t...

Wrigley Rooftops Could Be Open For New Year's Hockey Game

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 12.02.2008 | Chicago


Frigid fans jamming Wrigley Field won't be the only ones cheering when the Blackhawks host the Detroit Red Wings on New Year's Day for the NHL's seco...

Cubs Lose, Cubs Lose, Cubs Lose!

Monroe Anderson | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago


Monroe Anderson

Although I've lived less than two miles from Wrigley Field for more than 30 years, I've never been much of a Cubs fan for three reasons.

Cubs Lose Game Two, On The Brink Of Elimination

AP | RICK GANO | Posted 10.03.2008 | Chicago


CHICAGO — Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers look ready to run the shaky Chicago Cubs out of the playoffs early and extend their championship drought...

Cubs-Dodgers: Follow Game Two Live

mlb.com | Posted 10.02.2008 | Chicago


The Cubs turn to a man with an 18.47 ERA in his last two starts to avoid going down 0-2. They're comfortable with that. "[Carlos Zambrano is] our hor...

The Mood At Wrigley

Jon Greenberg | Posted 10.02.2008 | Chicago


Jon Greenberg

It's a long plane ride out West. Maybe the Cubs will have their own Manifest Destiny, taking two in L.A., and come back for an encore in Chicago. It's nice to dream.

Slim to None? Cubs Blow First Game

Jon Greenberg | Posted 10.02.2008 | Chicago


Jon Greenberg

This team has been so good all year, and the rest of the National League so average, it seemed predestined that in the 100th anniversary of the Cubs' last World Series title, they would win again and exorcise the old demons that have haunted this club and its fans for so long. This was a new team, you were told, a new beginning. So why does it feel the same?

From One Cubs Fan to the Masses

Alden Loury | Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago


Alden Loury

While it's a bit unfair to blame Bartman for the Cubs' failure to reach the World Series in 2003, that display was indicative of what's wrong with today's so-called sports fans.

Meeks Scaling Back Cubs Playoff Protest

Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago


Hundreds of people will gather around Wrigley Field during Wednesday's playoff game to protest school funding inequities, but they will not ring the s...

Balls in Our Fields: Chicago Says Let's Play Two

Jon Greenberg | Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago


Jon Greenberg

The Cell isn't even the center of Chicago's baseball world this year. I was at that place, Wrigley Field, Tuesday for the Cubs-Dodgers workout, where pre-game interviews consisted of finding a dozen different ways to ask someone how it feels to do something they haven't done yet.

New Ads On Wrigley Field Walls

Chicago Tribune | Posted 09.30.2008 | Chicago


"Though advertising has been kept off the walls at Wrigley Field since its inception, with the exception of the Under Armour ads on the doors in the p...

Wrigley Field: FInding Real Fans At The Circus

Posted 09.26.2008 | Chicago


Sports Illustrated scribe Gary Smith embedded at Wrigley Field for the Cubs Labor Day series against the Phillies for the magazine's current cover sto...

Wrigleyville Going Dry For Playoffs?

Posted 09.23.2008 | Chicago


UPDATE Mayor Daley spoke out in favor of the seventh-inning booze ban and warned that bars that violate it could lose their liquor licenses. "We do...