The Chicago Landmarks Commission signed off on Cubs owner Tom Ricketts’ modified Wrigley Field modification requests yesterday as expected, and for those of you wondering how a 95-by-60-foot video board was going to measure 4,500 square feet, no, it’s not just that the Chicago Sun-Times eliminated its desk calculator budget when it was laying off all its photographers. Today’s Sun-Times explains — following one of the most painful stadium-campaigns-as-sports-event ledes in journalism history — that the jumbotron itself will be 95 feet wide and 48 feet tall (4,560 square feet), but will measure 60 feet high when the giant corporate logo and light towers on top are added. So it’ll still look like this.
Next stop for the Wrigley plan is fittingly enough, the Plan Commission, which is appointed by the mayor and so likely to approve it as well. That leaves only the city council, which will have to decide whether to side with its own member from the Wrigleyville district or with a popular not-actually-all-that-popular-anymore mayor who likes to send dead fish to those who’ve displeased him. Maybe Tom Tunney can counter by bribing his colleagues with Swedish meatballs?
Tom Tunney runs a chain of upscale Swedish breakfast restaurants. He will bury you with a heavy delicious breakfast. They also serve 5700 sq. foot cinnamon buns that violate the laws of nature.
He’s not lying – the last time I ordered a cinnamon bun at Ann Sather’s, it collapsed into a singularity that swallowed half my party.