Cubs denied Wrigley Field construction extension by City of Chicago

By Alan Condon | Mar 4, 2015

Apr 22, 2014; Chicago, IL, USA; A general view of the main marquee at the stadium entrance before the game between the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports /

The City of Chicago has denied a request from the Chicago Cubs to allow extended work hours on the Wrigley Field construction project which has been set back in recent weeks due to weather.

On Monday, team officials suggested the idea of working 24 hours a day on the project, in order to catch up to the construction timetable, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. However, the following day that idea was shut down by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel a little more than a month before he faces a mayoral runoff election.

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Following the rejection of this idea, the team requested that the city allow them to extend daily construction hours to 6am to 10pm, instead of the 8am to 8pm norm mandated by the city.

Chicago’s Department of Buildings denied that request as well, stating that the request and the project did not qualify for any exception to the city’s codes.

Officials with the team announced on Monday that the stadium’s first phase of construction is on track for completion by the Cubs’ April 5 season-opening night game. However, recent problems with the weather had helped delay construction on the bleachers in Wrigley’s left and right fields.

At the start of the year, Chicago Cubs reported that the left-field bleachers would not be completed until May 11, and the right-field stands at the end of that month. Crane Kenney, the Cubs’ president of business operations, said on Monday that the bleachers in right-field now might not be completed until the beginning of June.

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