P.K. Wrigley already had purchased the materials and stored them under the grandstand. The installation was scheduled to begin Dec. 8, 1941. On Dec. 7, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and Wrigley's plans to play night games at Wrigley Field went up in smoke. Wrigley donated the steel and wire to the war effort, and day baseball became a novelty on the North Side of Chicago. It would be 47 years before the first night game would be played at 1060 W. Addison.

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The results are in. The people have spoken -- or at least booed and hissed -- about what bugs them most about being a sports fan in Chicago, past and present. So fasten your seatbelts, lock your doors and hold on with white-knuckled urgency. Readers with beefs about Chicago sports are about to take us on a Sunday Drive.

Q: Welcome to Chicago -- or at least to Northern Illinois. So who's it going to be, Cubs or Sox?

If coaches, players and executives had the answers, the chronic underachieving that has become all-too-common in Chicago sports in recent years wouldn't have occurred and the Bulls would be participating in a playoff series instead of enduring a seasonlong collapse that sent great billowing dust clouds into the atmosphere.