Construction began on the Wrigley Field sports book just a few weeks ago, but quite a bit of progress has been made. As you will see in the photos below, there’s already a fairly large hole in the ground and some of the supports for the structure have been laid into the sandy soil that’s a feature of the land near Wrigley.
Which brings me to a point about that sandy soil. Mike Bojanowski took the photos in the gallery below, and sent me these notes about the ground they’re digging into:
The yellow soil that gets turned up, not only here, but at all construction sites along Clark Street, always fascinates.