Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she can envision the Cubs and her beloved White Sox playing baseball at Wrigley and Guaranteed Rate Fields sometime this summer. But, it’s likely to be an eerie, lonely, made-for-television affair.
A Sox season ticket holder, Lightfoot said a decision on when and how baseball will return will be made “at the league level” — not by individual team owners nor by the governors and mayors of individual states and cities.
But she acknowledged having “ongoing conversations” with the owners of both teams about “what that might look like.”
“We’re obviously a ways away from that because we haven’t seen the level of cases decline on a consistent basis.