WRIGLEY FIELD, CHICAGO

Located on Chicago’s Near North Side, the ivy-studded Wrigley Field has been the home of Chicago Cubs baseball since 1916. The oldest National League ball park was designed by Zachary Taylor Davis in 1914 for the Chicago Whales of the Federal League, with a single-deck capable of seating 14,000 spectators. The second deck was added in 1926-27, increasing the seating capacity to just more than 37,000. The hand-operated scoreboard, constructed in 1935-37 and measuring 27 feet high by

75 feet wide, is still in use today to provide inning-by-inning scores of all majorleague games as well as pitching changes. Until

1988, Wrigley was the only ballpark in the major leagues without lights, restricting its use to daytime games. The lighting equipment to be installed in 1941 was instead donated by owner Paul Wrigley to the war effort the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. While other alterations have occurred since then, none have marred the park’s basic configuration or stripped its status as one of baseball’s most venerable structures. The park also is important in football history, being home to the Chicago Bears from 1920 until their move to Soldier Field in the early 1970s. chicago.cubs.mlb.com/chc/ ballpark/