Non-game days: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat-Sun 10am-4pm
Game days: Mon-Fri 9am-6pm (when a day game is
scheduled), 9am-9pm (when a night game is scheduled);
Sat 9am-6pm (day game); 9am-8pm (night game); Sun 9am
to 4pm (day game), 9am-9pm (night game)
The original Comiskey Park, home to the Chicago White Sox, was one of the oldest parks in the American League, opening on the same day as Detroit's Tiger Stadium in 1910. Aside from that little unpleasantness in 1919, with the 'Black Sox' scandal, everything was okay until the late 1980's when Sox Chairman of the Board Jerry Reinsdorf threatened to move the Sox to Florida if he didn't get a new stadium.
Mr. Reinsdorf got his wish, and a brand new state-of-the-art stadium was erected, (at a cost of some $167 million), right across the street from the old ball park. With gruesome inevitability, the new stadium structure went up while games were still being played in the old Comiskey. They auctioned off the seats when the old park was demolished.
Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum, known familiarly as HOK, is the architectural firm that gave us a new interpretation of historic Comiskey. They are well-known for postmodern "New Traditionalist" sports facilities, including Baltimore's Camden Yards and Coors Stadium in Denver.
Despite the questionable appeal of the new stadium, the game is still a great game. The new park, which opened in 1991, has a bluegrass field surrounded by 44,321 seats, including those in the 84 luxury skyboxes. (Renovations scheduled for 2004 will remove 6,600 seats from the upper deck). A nice day in Chicago just begs for a ball game, and getting to Comiskey is a breeze. Take the El's Howard/Dan Ryan Red Line train to Sox/35th station and you're only a block away.
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