Cubs in DuPage County? Board Making a Pitch

DuPage County Board chairman Dan Cronin has announced that the county intends to make a bid for the Chicago Cubs to relocate from Wrigley Field to a DuPage location, the Daily Herald reports.

"We are going to make a pitch," Cronin told the paper. "[The team-owning Ricketts family] are so disappointed, discouraged and unhappy with their treatment from the city of Chicago leadership that they are now open—genuinely open—to the idea of relocating and rebuilding a replica of Wrigley Field somewhere outside of the city, [and] DuPage County is a place where they are interested in moving."

County officials say they have located between two and four possible locations for such a replica in DuPage: 40-acre sites near major roads and public rail, the paper said; the sites were not identified.

A $500 million deal to renovate Wrigley Field was approved in April, but has faced various oppositions, perhaps most of all from owners of the buildings outside the part whose rooftop views would be blocked by proposed new Jumbotrons in the park.

According to the Chicago Tribune, however, the Ricketts say they are remaining committed to renovating Wrigley at its current location.

“Tom (Ricketts’) focus and the focus of the Ricketts family is to achieve the Chicago framework,” spokesman Dennis Culloton (who is a member of the county's economic development board) told the paper. “So there are no plans at this time to listen to any other presentations.”

However, Culloton did acknowledge to the Herald that suburban officials "want to be ready in the event things do not go according to plan in Chicago."

Read more at the Daily Herald, Chicago Tribune and Huffington Post websites.

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