The Old Outfield Fence at Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Looking through a chain-link door onto the green grass at Wrigley Field, a baseball stadium filled with people during a game.

September 15, 2016

As I write this in 2023, I've lived in Chicago for just about a decade. It's amazing to think how many things have changed, but many of those were the parts of the city I loved the most, or seemed most special to me as I learned Chicago. This is the old right field fence at Wrigely Field from Sheffield Avenue, where you used to be able to stand and look directly onto the field from just a few feet away. It was amazing to get all of the energy of the game from a little window right there at street level. This was renovated and is now a quite solid wall that forms the outfield bullpen. Just like so many other things around the city (and Wrigleyville/Lakeview in particular) it marked the closing of another portal to a more...textured past, gone forever.

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