Ricketts: New Wrigley Field revenue needed for Cubs to stay

Updated: 2013-05-01 21:59:28

Cubs’ Chairman Tom Ricketts spoke so softly Wednesday when he uttered the dreaded “M” word, that some in the audience wondered if they’d heard him correctly. “If it comes to the point that we don’t have the ability to do what we need to do in our outfield, then we’re going to have to consider moving,” said Ricketts as he made a pitch for a planned $300 million Wrigley Field renovation. The city’s mayor says he’s not worried.

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  Nearly three years after Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey was murdered, just as he was on the verge of retiring, his son was in a hospital Wednesday, recovering from a gunshot wound to his side. Michael Bailey Jr., 30, was in a car at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday near 55th and Union in Englewood when he was shot by someone in another vehicle, police said.

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