This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Chicago. 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. :Later: site of International Amphitheatre :Currently: Uniform services plant ; Ogden Park :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 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 ;

23rd Street Grounds 23rd Street Grounds, also known as State Street Grounds and 23rd Street Park, and sometimes spelled out as Twenty-third Street Grounds, was a ballpark in Chicago, in what is now the Chinatown district. In this ballpark, the Chicago White Stocking ...

:Home of: ::Chicago Excelsiors (1868) ::Neutral site for some out-of-town clubs' games (1872–1873) :: Chicago White Stockings – NA (1874–1875), National League (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. T ...

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

Union Association The Union Association was a league in Major League Baseball which lasted for just the 1884 season. St. Louis won the pennant and joined the National League the following season. Seven of the twelve teams who were in the Association at some poi ...

(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 - Western Association (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 De ...

: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 The Chicago World Language Academy was opened in 1894 to serve children from the crowded tenement community surrounding the Polk Street Station port of entry for immigrants. That year was started one of the first public schools kindergartens in ...

(1340 West Harrison Street) ; South Side Park (II) :Home of: :: Chicago Pirates – 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 :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 ; South Side Park (III) a.k.a. 39th Street Grounds (II) renamed Schorling's Park :Home of: Chicago White Sox – American League (1900 – mid-1910); Chicago American Giants – Negro leagues (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 Comiskey Park was a baseball park in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-southwest side of the city. The stadium served as the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League from 1910 through 1990. Buil ...

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 (farther east) :Currently: Parking lot ;

Gunther Park Gunther Park (now Chase Park) was a semi-professional baseball park in Chicago, Illinois. The field site was a large block bounded by North Ashland Avenue (west, home plate); Hills Court (north, left field); buildings and North Clark Street (east, ...

:Home of:

Chicago Green Sox The Chicago Green Sox were a short-lived franchise of the United States Baseball League. The eight-team league ceased operations after just over a month of play in 1912. 1912 Standings In the Green Sox and the USBL's only season, Chicago finis ...

United States Baseball League The United States Baseball League was a short-lived hopeful third major-league that was established in New York City in 1912 and lasted only one partial season. History In March 1912, organizers of the proposed league – described by members of ...

(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 Field :Home of: Chicago Chi-Feds – Federal League (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 originally Weeghman Park, then Cubs Park :Home of: Chicago Chi-Feds/Whales – Federal League (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 Guaranteed Rate Field is a baseball stadium located on the South Side, Chicago, South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It serves as the home stadium of the Chicago White Sox, one of the city's two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, and i ...

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)

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* *{{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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