Wrigleyvile in Chicago was an old looking oddball neighborhood of old misshaped buildings that often did not line up and were built individually and not on a mass scale with parking lot in front. The neighborhood attracted young urban professionals into the area following white flight in the sixties and seventies as the neighborhood looked cool and was surrounded by a professional baseball team right smack in the middle of it. Tom Ricketts and his family saw a golden opportunity decades later to purchase the team and property surrounding it to further make it a mecca he can share and partner with the corporate backers and increase his wealth and value of team ownership with this degradation of the area into newer and cheaper architecture.
One of the first leases signed into this ugly strip suburban mall development at Clark and Addison is Shake Shack and one must wonder how much longer before the unique look of Wrigleyville is erased and the area becomes inundated with Dunkin Donuts and subway sandwich shops. I mean who will venture into this neighborhood for a Shake Shack. really? Why don't you build a Steak and Shake while at it and basically the corporatization of this neighborhood should of been battled more profusely by area residents who now have a motel in the area in place of bars and cool clubs. The Chicago cubs and their lame Iowa fan base and boring sport never made this neighborhood and this process of places and business that are not unique along with the bad modern architecture. The Chicago cubs almost moved to Rosemont but t now appears Rosemont and mall type look is coming to Wrigleyville and this will be the death of a once awesome urban neighborhood and it will become another Naperville and Schaumburg minus the massive amount of Asians and Indian-type fucks. 
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