{"id":578819,"date":"2010-05-25T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133ee6fdd6f970b"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:43:00","slug":"toyota-sign-at-wrigley-gets-council-committee-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578819","title":{"rendered":"Toyota sign at Wrigley gets council committee approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 12:40 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>A City Council committee today recommended approval of the Toyota sign that will tower over Wrigley Field\u2019s bleachers as a way for the Cubs&#8217; new owners to generate more money at the historic North Side ballpark.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Approval came after local Ald. Thomas Tunney, 44th, signed off, saying the Cubs\u2019 owners had agreed to a four-year moratorium on new signs that are within the foul lines or affect the views from rooftop bleachers overlooking the park.\n<\/p>\n<p>During that time, Tunney said he will work with the Ricketts family, which now owns Wrigley, to come up with an overall plan for signs in the park.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>The Toyota sign, which could go up shortly after the June 9 council meeting at which a final vote is expected, will generate millions of dollars in Cubs revenue \u201cwithout increasing ticket prices or charging more for food,&quot; according to Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>One advocate with a rooftop owners\u2019 group opposed the sign, saying it would look down on a residential neighborhood, and a Wrightwood neighborhood resident cautioned against approving it before a master sign plan was in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 12:40 p.m.A City Council committee today recommended approval of the Toyota sign that will tower over Wrigley Field\u2019s bleachers as a way for the Cubs&#8217; new owners to generate more money at the historic North Side ballpark.Approval came after local Ald. Thomas Tunney, 44th, signed off, saying the Cubs\u2019 owners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}