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Former Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) battled the Cubs over all things Wrigley Field for two decades, prompting the Ricketts family that owns the team to bankroll a challenger that Tunney handily defeated.
When Bennett Lawson replaced Tunney, his former boss and mentor, he set out to “lower the temperature” and improve a relationship with the Cubs that he called “unnecessarily confrontational.”
“There’s ways we can disagree without… having it blow up,” Lawson said Thursday.
Now Lawson’s “hard reset” with the Cubs could set the stage for Chicago’s iconic ballpark to host the 2027 All-Star Game and, possibly, for the team to achieve its longstanding goal to play more night games at Wrigley to level the playing field with other teams.