Report: MLB to announce Wrigley Field as 2027 All-Star game host

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Tony Crumpton · Senior Editor · 1 day ago

It's been 37 years... and it's finally going to happen again.

Wrigley Field will be the host of the 2027 MLB All-Star Game on August 1, according to Crain's Chicago Business.

"MLB and Cubs execs, along with local politicians, are planning an Aug. 1 announcement at Wrigley Field,” Crane's Justin Laurence posted on social media.

The last time that the Cubs hosted an All-Star Game was on July 10, 1990 and before that in 1962 and 1947.

“The beauty of Wrigley is we play in a neighborhood,” Cubs president of business operations Crane Kenney told The Score in January. “That means active streets during the game, 40,000 people inside and a U-Haul truck that could have fertilizer in it rolling right past the gates. That’s no good, and the commissioner made it very clear that’s no good. Those streets need to be closed – not just from the moment the game starts but during the game.

“Progress was made, and then Rahm [Emanuel] left office. Honestly, Mayor [Lori] Lightfoot made a lot of progress with the commissioner and a plan and then was not re-elected [in 2023]. So we picked up the torch with Mayor [Brandon] Johnson, and he’s been making a lot of progress. And I think it’s a very realistic expectation for 2027 based on the conversations I’m aware of that are happening.”