Ok, here is a preview of a Red's game vs. the Cubs at Wrigley and a few other sites around Chicago.  (And I don't have that many but I haven't got them all posted to the website yet.)

 

 

More now added!  Scroll down.

YAY!

I can never get enough of Chi-town!

Ok, on with the show . . .

 

 

 

We sat in the bleachers . . .

 

 

 

We could have had this in Broadway Commons.

 

 

Bars right across the street from the stadium?  What a concept.

 

 

 

Millennium Park awaits . .

 

 

 

My non-architectural friends I was with were even impressed with the park.

 

 

 

 

So the city has free workouts on the lawn.  This was "Dance Aerobics".  Yoga and Pilates were earlier in the day . . .

 

The sound was amazing with the way the speakers are mounted on the trellis.

 

 

 

Now up Michigan Ave.

 

 

 

 

And one last shot of Millennium Park before heading back to the hotel and Cincinnati.

 

So I didn't want to miss most of Oktoberfest and the "Prohibition" tour but I think it was worth it for my first trip to Wrigley and seeing a completed Millennium Park.

... I'm sorry...  bars right across the street from the stadium...  it's just too radical of a concept...  let's stick with what we know works best: large swales of empty dirt...

How were the new bleachers at Wrigley?  I didn't make it to a game this year :oops:

Having never been before (this was my first time) I quess I can't say.  None of the friends I was with mentioned anything.  The local guy sitting next to me pointed out parts of the stadium that had chaged over the years - additional seeting in right field, luxury boxes, etc.  - but nothing about the seats.  I didn't even know it was General Admission.

^Oh, the bleachers are all new this year, and were very controversial(design wise).  Your first pic shows it best, the red brick and cantilevered bleachers are all new.  The stadium used to just keep going with lot line of the tan-ish stone facade seen in the foreground.  I thought they did a good job of keeping the integrity of the historic field.

Great architecture pictures.....I would expect nothing less!