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Article: Tribune is picked off at first base Land parcel in Wrigley Field plan belongs to Chicago
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 24, 2001
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Chicago taxpayers--not the Tribune Co.--own a valuable piece of
land next to Wrigley Field that the Cubs want to develop as part of a
controversial expansion of the stadium, City Hall concluded Thursday.
After poring through century-old documents, Chicago Title
Insurance confirmed what the Daley administration and Wrigleyville
residents suspected all along: The land the Tribune Co. thought it
had purchased from the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
for $150,000 was never the railroad's to sell.
It still belonged to Chicago taxpayers.
"The definitive answer was that this piece of property was
dedicated as a street in 1855. There was never an order--either from
the General Assembly ...