Northwestern baseball is upgrading its facilities from the worst in Division I to perfectly acceptable, and part of that upgrade includes adding an LED scoreboard. Simple enough, right?
Nope, because people who live near the proposed scoreboard are PISSED:
The Wilmette residents, who repeatedly interrupted a university official as he responded to questions from aldermen, at one point had to be admonished by Planning and Development Chair Mark Tendam to stop interrupting or leave the room.
For their part, the residents, who live across the Isabella Street municipal boundary from the field, claimed that the scoreboard would be a blight on their property values, a distraction to drivers and a threat to migratory birds.