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. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed. ; Dexter Park :Home of: Chicago White Stockings, independent professional club (1870) :Location: Halsted Street (east), between 47th Street (south) and the imaginary line of 42nd Street (north). Adjacent to

Union Stock Yards The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a central ...

. :Later: site of

International Amphitheatre The International Amphitheatre was an indoor arena located in Chicago, Illinois, that opened in 1934 and was demolished in 1999. It was located on the west side of Halsted Street, at 42nd Street, on the city's south side, in the Canaryville n ...

:Currently: Uniform services plant ;

Ogden Park Ogden Park, also known as Ogden Skating Park, was a recreational facility on the near north side of Chicago around the 1860s and 1870s. It was home to the Ogden Skating Club. It was on a piece of land east of where Ontario Street (at that time) T-ed ...

:Home of: Chicago White Stockings (1870) – some games :Location: East of where Ontario Street (at that time) T-ed into Michigan Avenue. :Currently: hotels and other businesses ;

Union Base-Ball Grounds Union Base-Ball Grounds was a baseball park located in Chicago. The park was "very visibly downtown", its small block bounded on the west by Michigan Avenue, on the north by Randolph Street, and on the east by railroad tracks and the lake shore, ...

a.k.a. White-Stocking Park :Home of: Chicago White Stockings – National Association (1871) :Location: Randolph (north), Michigan Avenue (west); Northwest corner of Lake Park (now known as Grant Park) – diamond roughly in southwest corner of field :Currently:

Millennium Park Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in 2004 and intended to celebrate the third millennium, is a prominent civic center nea ...

; 23rd Street Grounds :Home of: ::Chicago Excelsiors (1868) ::Neutral site for some out-of-town clubs' games (1872–1873) :: Chicago White Stockings – NA (1874–1875),

National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team ...

(1876–1877) ::Fairbanks -

League Alliance The League Alliance was the first semi-affiliated minor league baseball league. Proposed by Al Spalding on January 15, 1877. Independent baseball teams were to affiliate with National League teams, which would honor their respective contracts. The ...

(1877) :Location: 23rd Street (north); Dearborn Street (east); 24th Street (south); railroad tracks (west) :Currently: National Teachers Academy athletic field ; Lake Park a.k.a. Lake-Shore Park a.k.a. White-Stocking Park :Home of: Chicago White Stockings – NL (1878–1884) :Location: Same as 1871 site – diamond roughly in south part of field :Currently:

; South Side Park (I) a.k.a. 39th Street Grounds (I) :Home of:

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– Union Association (1884) :Location: 39th Street (now Pershing Road) (south); South Wabash Avenue (west); 38th Street (north); South Michigan Avenue (east) – a few blocks east and southeast of the later south side ballparks ; West Side Park (I) :Home of: ::Chicago White Stockings – NL (1885–1891) ::

Chicago Maroons The Chicago Maroons are the intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Chicago. They are named after the color maroon. Team colors are maroon and gray, and the Phoenix is their mascot. They now compete in the NCAA Division III, mostly as ...

Western Association The Western Association was the name of five different leagues formed in American minor league baseball during the 19th and 20th centuries. The oldest league, originally established as the Northwestern League in 1883, was refounded as the Weste ...

(1888) ::Also used as a neutral site for one game in the

1887 World Series The 1887 World Series was won by the Detroit Wolverines of the National League, over the St. Louis Browns of the American Association, 10 games to 5. It was played between October 10 and 26, and played in numerous neutral cities, as well as in D ...

:Location: Congress Street (north, left field); Loomis Street (west, home plate); Harrison Street (south, right field); Throop Street (east, center field) :Currently: Chicago World Language Academy (1340 West Harrison Street) ; South Side Park (II) :Home of: ::

Chicago Pirates The Chicago Pirates was a baseball team in the Players' League for a single season in 1890. The team played its home games at South Side Park (II). Its powerful National League rivals were the Chicago White Stockings which later became the Cubs. ...

– PL (1890) ::Chicago White Stockings – NL (1891 – mid-1893) :Notes: Split schedule with West Side Park (I) in 1891 and West Side Park (II) in 1893 :Location: 35th Street (south, center field); South Wentworth Avenue (east, left field); 33rd Street (north, home plate); railroad tracks (west, right field) - same footprint later occupied by Comiskey Park and

Armour Square Park Armour Square Park, also known as Armour Square or Park No. 3, is a park in Chicago, Illinois featuring Beaux Arts architecture, designed by D.H. Burnham and the Olmsted Brothers. The park was opened in March 1905, at a cost of $220,000. It was n ...

:Currently: Parking lot and/or Dan Ryan Expressway ; West Side Park (II) a.k.a. West Side Grounds :Home of: Chicago White Stockings – NL (mid-1893–1915) :Location: Polk Street (north, third base); Lincoln (now Wolcott) Street (west, first base); Wood Street (east, left field); flats and Taylor Street (south, right field) :Currently:

University of Illinois College of Medicine The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers a four-year program leading to the MD degree at four different sites in Illinois: Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and formerly Urbana–Champaign. The Urbana–Champaign site stopped accepting ne ...

; South Side Park (III) a.k.a. 39th Street Grounds (II) renamed Schorling's Park :Home of:

Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and ...

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American League The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league ...

(1900 – mid-1910);

Chicago American Giants The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" F ...

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Negro leagues The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

(1911–1940) :Location: 39th Street (now Pershing Road) (south, first base); South Wentworth Avenue (east, right field); South Princeton Avenue (west, third base); line of 38th Street (north, left field) – a few blocks south of the Comiskey Park sites :Currently: Wentworth Gardens housing project ; Comiskey Park a.k.a. White Sox Park (1960s-1970s) :Home of: Chicago White Sox – AL (mid-1910 – 1990); Chicago American Giants – Negro leagues (1941-ca.1950) :Location: 324 West 35th Street – 35th Street (south, first base); Shields Street (west); 34th Street (north, left field); Wentworth Avenue (east, right field) and

Dan Ryan Expressway The Dan Ryan Expressway is an expressway in Chicago that runs from the Circle Interchange with Interstate 290 (I-290) near Downtown Chicago through the South Side of the city. It is designated as both I-90 and I-94 south to 66th Street, ...

(farther east) :Currently: Parking lot ; Gunther Park :Home of: Chicago Green Sox - United States Baseball League (1912 only) :Location: North Ashland Avenue (west, home plate); Hills Court (north, left field); buildings and North Clark Street (east, center field); Leland Avenue (south, right field) :Currently: Chase Park ;

DePaul University DePaul University is a private, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1998, it became the largest Ca ...

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Chicago Chi-Feds The Chicago Whales were a professional baseball team based in Chicago. They played in the Federal League, a short-lived "third Major League", in 1914 and 1915. They originally lacked a formal nickname, and were known simply as the "Chicago Feder ...

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Federal League The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that played its first season as a minor league in 1913 and operated as a "third major league", in competition with the e ...

(1913) :Location: Belden Avenue (north); Sheffield Avenue (east); University buildings and Webster Avenue (south); Osgood Street (west) :Currently: DePaul student center and parking lots ;

Wrigley Field Wrigley Field is a Major League Baseball (MLB) stadium on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home of the Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman's Chicago ...

originally Weeghman Park, then Cubs Park :Home of: Chicago Chi-Feds/Whales –

(1914–1915); Chicago Cubs – NL (1916–present) :Location: 1060 West Addison Street (south, first base); Clark Street (southwest and west, home plate); Waveland Avenue (north, left field); Sheffield Avenue (east, right field) ; Guaranteed Rate Field originally "New Comiskey Park", then U.S. Cellular Field :Home of: Chicago White Sox – AL (1991–present) :Location: 333 West 35th Street, across the street to the south from "Old" Comiskey Park – 35th Street (north, third base); site of Shields Street (west, first base); Wentworth Avenue (east, left field) and Dan Ryan Expressway (farther east); parking and Wells Street (south, right field)

References

* *{{Cite book , last1 = Lowry , first1 = Philip J. , title = Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of Major League and Negro League Ballparks , year = 2006 , publisher = Walker Co. , location = New York , isbn = 978-0-8027-1608-8 , oclc = 74491309 , url-access = registration , url = https://archive.org/details/greencathedralsu0000lowr_u1c9 *''Baseball Memories'', by Marc Okkonen, Sterling Publishing, 1992.

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DePaul athletic field on Sanborn map, 1910DePaul athletic field on Sanborn map, 1935
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