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Since the opening of Wrigley Field, April 23, 1914, over a century ago, several expansions (1922, 1927, 2006) and renovations have occurred (1937, 1988, 2014 2019). January 2013, the structural assessment, evaluation, and documentation of the existing structural steel members of both the upper and lower deck of the grandstand bleachers, as well ...
Wrigley Field / ˈ r ɪ ɡ l i / is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman's Chicago Whales of the Federal League, which folded after the 1915 baseball season.
After leaving Decatur, Illinois in 1921 the Bears played at Wrigley Field for 50 years, from 1921 to 1970, which once held the record for the most NFL games played in a single stadium, with 365 regular season games, until this record was surpassed in 2003 by Giants Stadium in New Jersey. During this time the team won nearly 70% of its home ...
Happ's view of Wrigley Field is on display at a Chicago art gallery — also where he got engaged last year — for a few more weeks as part of a series of drawings by Patrick Vale.
Back in the opening week of the 2006 season, in a Chicago Tribune article accompanied by cartoonist Rick Tuma’s illustrations, I offered some predictions of what a Wrigley Field experience would ...
Wrigley Rooftops is a name for the sixteen rooftops of residential buildings which have bleachers or seating on them to view baseball games or other major events at Wrigley Field. Since 1914 Wrigley roofs have dotted the neighborhood of Wrigleyville around Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Cubs play Major League Baseball .
The Bears' 50 seasons at Wrigley Field was the NFL record for one team at one venue until 2006, when Lambeau Field equaled this milestone by hosting the Green Bay Packers for their 50th season ...
With Tribune's sale of the Cubs (and Wrigley Field) to Thomas S. Ricketts in 2009, further improvements to the park were developed, including construction of the long-discussed "triangle building" immediately to the west of the park at the intersection of Clark Street and Waveland Avenue, which would house some of the team's offices as well as ...