TRJF's 4,000-Mile Road Trip!!!

[TheRealJoeFish]

Day 7: Chicago, Illinois

Day 6 was a day of rest, but on Day 7 I drove up to Chicago to catch a White Sox game! Chicago is the third-largest city in the U.S. I had already done Chicago downtown many years ago, so I decided to just take it easy and hang out at the stadium!

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Here's U.S. Cellular Field (to be renamed Guaranteed Rate Field on November 1) as seen from the parking lot. Wandering far from the immediate area is not encouraged; the field is on the south side of Chicago, just two miles or so from Englewood, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the country. Chicago just passed 500 homicides in 2016.

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U.S. Cellular is not a particularly highly-regarded stadium; it was fine but there wasn't really anything distinctive about it.

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Me in my seat, down the right field line. You can see there's almost no one behind me; US Cellulars difficult-to-reach location + White Sox having a bad year + day game on a workday = rather poor attendance.

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The visiting Detroit Tigers warming up.

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Miguel Cabrera (#24) playing first base. Statistically, Cabrera has been the best batter in the MLB since the start of 2007, just ahead of Adrian Beltre.

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The Sox celebrating the 7-4 win after coming from behind in the 8th inning. That glorious mustache belongs to infielder Tyler Saladino.

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The Chicago skyline. The building on the far left is 1,450-foot (442 meter) Willis Tower, formerly and better known as the Sears Tower. For the quarter-century from its completion in 1973 until 1998, the Sears Tower was the tallest skyscraper in the world (humanity has since constructed 13 taller). It has been passed in the U.S. only by One World Trade Center, completed in 2014.

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St. Louis coming up soon!