Clipping:New Chicago West Side grounds
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| Date | Wednesday, January 1, 1890 |
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| Text | The Chicago League Club managers have purchased a plot of ground on the corner of Park and Lincoln street in the block immediately south of the county hospital. Workmen are now engaged filling in the grounds, and will have shortly completed the drainage system, which will alone cost over $10,000. The same architect who planned the Boston, Philadelphia and New York grounds will be employed. The dimensions of the park will be 650 feet square, and will cost, when complete, $180,000. Beautiful private [illegible] promenades and a club house of large dimensions have been provided for. The seating capacity will be 15,000. It was expected to have the grounds ready for playing in the spring of 1891, but the recent attempt to deprive the club of its present grounds compelled the managers to take a new lease of them extending over a period of three years, and a delay will result, but the new park will undoubtedly be ready for occupancy in 1892. It will not only be devoted to base ball, but bicycling, tennis, foot ball, cricket, in short all manager of athletic sports. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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