A report on Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, WGN-TV and Harry Caray

Caray in the Wrigley Field booth in 1988

The 1876 White Stockings won the NL championship.

Caray in 1951, when he was with the St. Louis Cardinals. The team's broadcasts were sponsored by the Griesedieck Brothers brewery prior to its purchase by Anheuser-Busch in 1953.

The 1906 Cubs won a record 116 of 154 games. They then won back-to-back World Series titles in 1907–08.

Ed Walsh holds the record for lowest career earned run average (ERA), 1.82

U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the press box with Caray during a 1988 game at Wrigley Field

Caray using his net to catch a foul ball in the Cardinals broadcast booth, 1957. He continued this practice when he worked for other teams.

News van outside the Dirksen Federal Building in June 2018.

Harry Caray's statue outside Wrigley Field

The White Sox celebrate after winning a tie-breaker game against the Minnesota Twins for a spot in the 2008 playoffs

A sports-related curse that was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs by Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.

View from the upper deck of U.S. Cellular Field in 2006

Ryne Sandberg set numerous league and club records in his career and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2005.

Andre Dawson, 5× All-Star and 1987 NL MVP during tenure in Chicago

Sammy Sosa was the captain of the Chicago Cubs during his tenure with the team.

Kerry Wood, along with Mark Prior, led the Cubs' rotation in 2003.

Eddie Murphy, John "Shano" Collins, Joe Jackson, Happy Felsch, and Nemo Leibold in their dugout during the 1917 World Series

Dempster emerged in 2004 and became the Cubs' regular closer.

Alfonso Soriano signed with the club in 2007.

Carlos Zambrano warming up before a game

Starlin Castro during his 2010 rookie season

One of two Cubs building blocks, Anthony Rizzo, swinging in the box

The Cubs celebrate after winning the 2016 World Series.

2016 Champions visit the White House in June 2017.

Minnie Miñoso (1951–57, 1960–61, 1964, 1976, 1980)

Bill Veeck, White Sox owner (1959–61, 1975–80) who revolutionized baseball by introducing many innovations in promotion

Fielder Jones of the White Sox hits the ball against Cubs at West Side Grounds, 1905

Harrelson in the broadcast booth in 2007

After a year working for the Oakland Athletics and 11 years with the Chicago White Sox, Caray spent the last 16 years of his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.

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The Cubs are one of two major league teams based in Chicago; the other, the Chicago White Sox, is a member of the American League (AL) Central division.

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The White Sox are one of two MLB teams based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League (NL) Central division.

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WGN-TV also became more reliant on sports programming, led by its broadcasts of Chicago Cubs baseball games as well as other regional collegiate and professional teams.

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In contrast to the "SportsVision" concept, the Cubs' own television outlet, WGN-TV, had become among the first of the cable television superstations, offering their programming to providers across the United States for free, and Caray became as famous nationwide as he had long been on the South Side and, previously, in St. Louis.

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The Broadcast Center, which began housing some local program production on January 16 of that year, was developed for color broadcasting—allowing the station to televise live studio shows as well as Chicago Cubs and White Sox baseball games in the format—and with civil defense concerns in mind to provide a safe location to conduct broadcasts in the event of a hostile attack (such as a bombing by a nuclear weapon) targeting downtown Chicago.

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At the top of the order, Dernier and Sandberg were exciting, aptly coined "the Daily Double" by Harry Caray.

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After Elson's retirement in 1970, Harry Caray began his tenure as the voice of the White Sox, on radio and on television.

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White Sox games appeared sporadically on television throughout the first half of the 20th century, most commonly announced by Jack Brickhouse on WGN-TV (channel 9).

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WGN-TV had a long-term association with the team, having aired Cubs games via its WGN Sports department from its establishment in 1948, through the 2019 season.

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Most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most populous city in the United States, following New York City and Los Angeles.

Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History

An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893

Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931)

Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront

The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window.

Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of the Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition

Downtown Chicago and the Chicago River during January 2014 cold wave

Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

The National Hellenic Museum in Greektown is one of several ethnic museums comprising the Chicago Cultural Alliance.

The spire of the Copernicus Center is modeled on the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.

The Magnificent Mile hosts numerous upscale stores, as well as landmarks like the Chicago Water Tower.

Carl Sandburg's most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/ Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/ Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."

Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side

Daley Plaza with Picasso statue, City Hall in background. At right, the Daley Plaza Building contains the state law courts.

When it was opened in 1991, the central Harold Washington Library appeared in Guinness World Records as the largest municipal public library building in the world.

The University of Chicago, as seen from the Midway Plaisance

WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station.

The former Harpo Studios in West Loop, Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015.

Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange, opened in the 1960s

Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States.

Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station

Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus

A number of statues also honor recent local heroes such as Michael Jordan (by Amrany and Rotblatt-Amrany), Stan Mikita, and Bobby Hull outside of the United Center; Harry Caray (by Amrany and Cella) outside Wrigley field, Jack Brickhouse (by McKenna) next to the WGN studios, and Irv Kupcinet at the Wabash Avenue Bridge.

The city has two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Chicago Cubs of the National League play in Wrigley Field on the North Side; and the Chicago White Sox of the American League play in Guaranteed Rate Field on the South Side.

Jack Brickhouse

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American sportscaster.

Brickhouse in the Comiskey Park press box in 1948 preparing to announce a White Sox game on television

Cubs broadcasters, June 11, 1981 – Vince Lloyd, Lou Boudreau, Milo Hamilton, Jack Brickhouse

Known primarily for his play-by-play coverage of Chicago Cubs games on WGN-TV from 1948 to 1981, he received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.

Brickhouse also called Chicago White Sox games prior to that team leaving WGN in 1968.

He also guest-hosted with Harry Caray when the Cubs secured their first postseason berth in 39 years, as they clinched the 1984 National League Eastern Division title in Pittsburgh.