Surprise: Sun-Times opposes Wrigley deal

By Lou Grant | Mar 13, 11:03 PM

A double-truck editorial states the Chicago Sun-Times opinion on the sale of Wrigley Field by the Chicago Cubs to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. Surprise: the newspaper opposes the sale.

This was not the poetic opposition of Greg Hintz in Crain's Chicago Business, but a piece without a lot of passion. "No one has articulated how Wrigley could spin off more cash than it already does," the editorial says, "what state agency run by political appointees would tell Wrigleyville that it plans to schedule more rock concerts and night games?"

"When (Sam) Zell took over the Tribune Co., he did it largely with other people's money… The Trib's employees were Sam's stooges then. In the Wrigley deal, we would be his stooges," it says.

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