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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.
The Wrigley Building was Chicago's first air-conditioned office building. If one walks through the center doors, one will enter a secluded park area overlooking the Chicago River. In the 1957 science fiction film Beginning of the End, giant grasshoppers attack downtown Chicago, and in one scene are shown climbing up the side of the Wrigley ...
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 .
View of the field from the upper deck, 2004. Wrigley Field is a stadium that opened in 1914. It has primarily served as the home field of the Chicago Cubs professional baseball club for over nine decades, but it also hosted football games and other events in its 100 years of existence.
View inside Wrigley Field A special flag flying session occurred from April 24–29, 2008, when the Cubs franchise won their 10,000th game on April 23, 2008. The Cubs' then-owner Philip K. Wrigley ordered the reconstruction of the bleachers and the building of the manually operated scoreboard in 1937. [ 30 ]
Bleacher Bums takes place in the bleachers of Chicago's Wrigley Field.The characters are a bunch of Chicago Cubs fans, watching a game in progress on a summer afternoon. Most of them have been gathering here for some time and know each other; even if they might not necessarily like or tolerate each other.
Not only were they tracking the progress (or lack thereof) of the team, but they also came to be an identifiable part of Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field lore, as well as a type of rallying cry for Cubs fans: "Eamus Catuli!" In 2012, with the building and club under new management, both signs were removed temporarily for repairs.
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 ...