On this day in 1916, the Chicago Cubs played their first game at 1060 West Addison. more ›

Visitors to Wrigley Field may soon see a Jumbotron in right field, enter the ballpark by passing through "Wrigleyville: Home of the Cubs" arches sponsored by advertisers and see Sheffield and Waveland Avenues closed to street fairs on game days under a plan proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to help the Cubs raise money to renovate the Friendly Confines without placing the burden on taxpayers. more ›

"Emanuel's administration said this is the first time a Mayor has ever FOIA'd himself… According to Emanuel, "It's a new me. The only four-letter F-word I use now is 'FOIA.'" more ›

In 1916 Charles Weeghman purchased the Chicago Cubs for $500,000 and moved them to what would become Wrigley Field. That's fairly well-known information about the prominent businessman. But what you may not know is that Weeghman had connections to the Ku Klux Klan. more ›

Six guys are taking a goat on a 1,900-mile hike from the Cubs spring training facility in Mesa, Ariz., to Wrigley Field. Now before you roll your eyes or start talking about the Sox, they are doing their "Crack the Curse" hike to raise money to fight cancer. more ›

Two acts have already been announced to play shows at Wrigley Field this summer, but rumors are swirling about Bruce Springsteen and Phish raising the question of whether Wrigley will be hosting more concerts than usual this year. more ›

The Sun-Times is citing sources in reporting that Springsteen will bring the expected tour behind Wrecking Ball to Wrigley Field in September. more ›

Garbage and flies and mold, oh my! more ›

We have some suggestions for which films should be shown at Wrigley Field if the city allows a Movie Night at the ballpark. more ›

Sometimes, picking on Cubs fans can't be avoided. more ›

More proof the Wrigley faithful are trading in their cup stacking skills for baby bjorns as they get older, yet still don't drop what they're holding when presented a chance to catch a foul ball. more ›

Rumors abound that Pabst is trying to extricate its Old Style brand from its decades long association with Wrigley Field. more ›

For almost three hours and over three dozen songs Paul McCartney delivered a concert set that only picked up steam as it went along. At one point in the evening we wondered just how do you critique a musical legend who still plays like he's excited to be there? Unlike other nostalgia acts who seem to be primarily motivated by ever increasing paydays, and have the stilted stage shows to prove it, McCartney wrung new life out of tunes that were were three to four times as old as quite of few of the folks in the audience. more ›

We wish Brent Lillibridge had an arm as strong as the one this Cubs fan exhibited yesterday after the Giants' Miguel Tejada hit a home run. more ›

Given the way the Cubs and White Sox have played this season, this could be the highlight of the year in Chicago baseball. more ›

As expected, the "cute Beatle" is bringing his band to Wrigley Field for at least one concert. more ›

Remember: There's no crying in baseball. more ›

Under pressure from residents and business owners, the Cubs will shoehorn a planned street fair for series against the Yankees, Cardinals and White Sox into the team-owned parking lot west of the ballpark. more ›

The big surprise from last night's game is that it reached a point where a seventh inning stretch was needed. more ›

White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko homered and DH Adam Dunn doubled twice for the Sox, but it was not enough as they fell to the Oakland Athletics 6-2 Saturday afternoon. Things aren't much better with the North Siders, but then again they didn't get enough time to muster any sort of rally. In six innings due to rain, the Chicago Cubs were shut out by the San Francisco Giants 3-0 Saturday night. more ›

Every time you bite into a Wrigley Field hot dog, you're biting into two Chicago classics at the same time. You are, of course, eating the Chicago Hot Dog, a culinary institution being served at the second-oldest park in major league baseball. But you are also biting into a Gonnella bun, made right here in Chicago. Not out in a suburb - on West Chicago avenue, four miles from Wrigley. Gonnella has been making bread in Chicago for over a hundred years, and baking at the Chicago Avenue plant since 1956. Join us on a tour of the entire factory including the baguette line, the hot dog buns and just about everything else. more ›

Spring is undoubtedly here, and we're getting ready for baseball season to really kick into full gear. But before you rush to Wrigley Field to stuff four hot dogs in your mouth and wash it down with a stadium cup full of beer next month, we hope you've got bleacher seats. more ›

Trouble arose on the North and South Sides of Chicago as neither of our beloved teams could pull out a win. The Cubs suffered a hard-to-watch 12-2 loss to the Dodgers while the White Sox one again got our hopes up with a multi home-run game but fell in Detroit 9-3. more ›

Tonight's game between the Cubs and Padres has been postponed thanks to the inclement weather. Since this is the Padres only trip to Wrigley Field this year, the game will be made up tomorrow as a day-night doubleheader. more ›

Now that they've won an album of the year Grammy, and had one of their iconic anthems soundtrack the trailer for the Where The Wild Things Are movie, the Arcade Fire will bring a quiver to bleacher bums' lips by singing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" at Wrigley Field. more ›

Tonight is the first night game of the Cubs 2011 home season, which means the immediate area around Wrigley Field, already strained for street parking during day games, becomes, in the words of Ted Nugent, a free-for-all. We never cease to be amazed at the number of people going to the game who are willing to be gouged by residents living near the park renting their parking spaces for exorbitant fees. the city will also have ticket writers out and about to drum up city revenue more ›

Leave it to a University of Chicago economist to lend credence to the belief that Wrigley Field is a background to being the World's Largest Beer Garden 81 times a year. Booth School of Business Finance Professor Tobias "Toby" Moskowitz is one of the co-authors of the new book Scorecasting. Moskowitz and Sports Illustrated senior writer Jon Wertham analyzed economic data related to baseball at Wrigley Field in relation to attendance and found that, more often than not. the one factor that tended to lead to decreases in attendance was increases in beer prices, even as tickets to Cubs games became more expensive. more ›

It's the little things that keep Cubs fans coming back to Wrigley Field, people. Little things like the announcement that Wrigley Field would be switching back to Vienna Beef franks as their official hot dog. more ›

While last season saw more than a few no shows at some late season games, there's no reason to expect that tickets to see the Cubs play at Wrigley won't remain among the hardest to come by in all of Chicago — except for maybe Bears-Packers playoff tickets. With the players still in Arizona, Cubs fans are still optimistic that this might be the year for their Cubbies, and even if they're 20 games out come August, at least Wrigley sells beer. more ›

The Harry Caray statue outside Wrigley Field has been the target of wannabe-butchers in the past. The Ricketts family hasn't been too nice to it, either. But some dumbass with idle hands decided to tag the statue over the weekend with "Sox" and another illegible word. Cubs spokesman Peter Chase said most of the tagging has been removed. more ›