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Windy City of change

By Scoop Jackson
Page 2

Thursday, October 27, 2005

CHICAGO -- Welcome to ghost town. The city of champions. In Wrigleyville, the bars are empty. Not literally, but not figuratively, either. The parking lot across the street from Wrigley Field, which usually charges $35 for regular-season Cubs games, wants only 10 bucks tonight. "When the Cubs were in the playoffs [in 2003], I was charging $150 a car to get in this lot," the attendant tells me as I drop Jackson on him and look for Hamilton as change. "Do you know how much I'd get if the Cubs ...

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