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Thank you for the Sun-Times editorial pointing out that the 70 acres of parking lots surrounding Sox Park remain a lost opportunity for redevelopment. The White Sox would also benefit from their development, since White Sox fans would no longer face the prospect of every game being book-ended by traffic jams on the Dan Ryan. Sox fans could linger in the neighborhood to shop, eat and play, just as Cub fans do in Wrigleyville.
Let’s be honest: The difference in attendance between our two teams has more to do with their neighborhoods than with baseball.
Soon after the Chicago Journal, a now-defunct paper covering the Near West and South Sides, suggested in 2005 this vision for a “Comiskeyville” or “Soxville” on these vacant lots, the White Sox revealed plans to develop a portion of the parking lot north of 35th Street. That plan was started, and that’s when the Chisox Bar & Grill and Chicago Sports Depot were built. Those businesses were to ser
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I listen to several podcasts, including some on the Washington Wizards regularly. Two of our writers, Matt Modderno and Ben Mehic are co-hosts of the Bleav in Wizards and Locked on Wizards podcasts respectively which you can listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms. I also check out On the Road with Buck and Phil, hosted by former Wizards play-by-play announcer Steve Buckhantz and color analyst Phil Chenier.
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