As you’ve likely seen by now, the White Sox announced a long-term deal to rename their stadium to Guaranteed Rate Field, with the 13-year agreement going into effect November 1. From a strictly dollars and cents perspective, the news is somewhere between neutral and good; from a more important perspective, it’s an example of this […]
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Reinsdorf Made Big Donations to Rauner, Rahm, Other ISFA Influencers
For more than three decades, White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf has been getting fat on government subsidies. In that time, he’s made sure to stuff the hands that feed him. In a search of individual donors since 1994 (when the Illinois State Board of Elections began digitizing records), BP South Side found $731,413 in political […]
The Quid Pro Quo of Shiny New Videoboards
As the White Sox take the field for the home opener this season, new outfield video boards will gleam and sparkle above them, and we will be awed. The video boards will seem in that moment—in all of their high-definition, altitudinous glory—to be money well spent by the state of Illinois. But, in that moment, […]