Alderman: Extend Wrigley Field Vendor Ban
Peddlers would be banned from sidewalks in a two-block area around Wrigley Field under a proposal introduced at today's City Council meeting....
Peddlers would be banned from sidewalks in a two-block area around Wrigley Field under a proposal introduced at today's City Council meeting....
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...
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Michael Roston | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago
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.
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 ...
Jon Greenberg | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago
What do Chicago sports fans have to look forward to in 2009, aside from Hawk Harrelson and bad singing at Wrigley?
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...
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...
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...
Monroe Anderson | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago
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.
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...
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...
Jon Greenberg | Posted 10.02.2008 | Chicago
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.
Jon Greenberg | Posted 10.02.2008 | Chicago
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?
Alden Loury | Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago
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.
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...
Jon Greenberg | Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago
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.
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...
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...
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...
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Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 06.30.2009 | Chicago