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The Northwestern Wildcats and the Illinois Fighting Illini played a college football game at Wrigley Field on November 20, 2010. It was the first football game at Wrigley Field since 1970, and the first collegiate football game there since 1938, when the DePaul Blue Demons played its regular games at Wrigley. [93]
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 .
News report by Voice of America about ticket prices at the 2016 World Series, the first world series game at Wrigley Field in 71 years [25] Other major changes, such as installing a new gate on the west side of the ballpark, relocating bullpens from along foul-lines to underneath the bleachers, and additional seating in the foul territory ...
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.
8. California Memorial Stadium. Built into the side of a mountain, and with a view of San Francisco, the Bears’ home offers one of the more picturesque settings in college football.
“No one knows what Wrigley Field or the Cubs will look like 20 years from now,” I wrote. “But at this rate there will be far fewer day games, bleacher tickets will cost ...
In 2002 the Bears selected the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium as the site of home football games during the renovation of Soldier Field (the agreement also included the preseason games of the 2003 season). [20] In the past the Bears also held two preseason games in the stadium in 1974 and 1975 (both against the St. Louis Cardinals).
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 ]