{"id":46567,"date":"2025-05-22T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/46567\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:01:09","slug":"city-state-chicago-cubs-to-split-30m-cost-for-proposed-wrigley-field-security-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/46567\/","title":{"rendered":"City, state, Chicago Cubs to split $30M cost for proposed Wrigley Field security upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Wrigley Field \u201cwould be surrounded by concrete bollards, with the more than\u201d $30M cost shared by the state, the city and the Cubs, under a plan proposed yesterday to \u201cresolve a long-running stalemate about ballpark security,\u201d according to Fran Spielman of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. The city \u201chas agreed to contribute\u201d $10M or \u201cone-third of the final guaranteed maximum price, whichever is less,\u201d under the agreement. Chicago\u2019s share \u201cwould be funded, in part, from what\u2019s left of the 2014 Cubs Fund for neighborhood improvements.\u201d The city \u201calso expects to receive\u201d $12M from the state to assist with the security project. The Cubs would pay \u201ca minimum\u201d of $8M to install the bollards, as well as any overruns, and \u201cmaintain the security improvements in the future.\u201d Cubs spokesperson Jennifer Martinez said that bollards are the \u201cnext best thing &#8212; short of street closings the city refused to allow\u201d &#8212; to \u201cestablish a security bubble around Wrigley\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/cubs\/2025\/05\/21\/security-bollards-wrigley-field-chicago-cubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/cubs\/2025\/05\/21\/security-bollards-wrigley-field-chicago-cubs\">CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 5\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrigley Field \u201cwould be surrounded by concrete bollards, with the more than\u201d $30M cost shared by the state,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,6035,8711,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-46567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-deals","14":"tag-legal","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114552326442704504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}