There’s that saying in baseball: If you build it, they will come. It’s a message the Chicago Cubs organization heard loudly in 2005 as it started to carve out a new use for the ballpark on non-game days, turning it into a popular concert venue.
Launching with Jimmy Buffett over Labor Day weekend in 2005, Wrigley’s live music program has thrived over the past 20 years, staging 80 shows and becoming a proverbial field of dreams for music fans.
Whether waiting out Pearl Jam’s epic 2013 rain delay, seeing Tom Petty’s final Chicago show in 2017 or witnessing Pink fly around the Friendly Confines like a real-life Tinkerbell in 2023, there are many “you had to be there” moments.