Game Report
Apr. 22nd, 2026 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperWe left the Cubs game tonight after six innings with the Cubs leading 6-2, because it was darned cold. I should know better than to trust that the temperature near the lakefront would be anything like reasonable on a day like this. But, no. I wore my windbreaker instead of my winter coat. It will be a couple of weeks until my next game due to fetching K from college, so we'll see how the temperature is by then.
The Cubs new remote parking lot is bad in about every possible way. It takes at least 15 minutes longer to get there than it took to get to the Irving Park lot if you are coming from the west or northwest. It is possibly closer if you are coming from the north, but if you were coming from the north, you could just take the Red Line. I am not sure *who* this location advantages.
The lot is a five story tall parking garage. When you pull into the lot, they tell you to scan a QR code and connect to a website to enter the information to get free parking (which takes the form of a 100% discount on 10 hours of parking). You can't connect to the website once you are *in* the garage, because huge mass of concrete blocking the signal, so you have to wait until you are parked and then walk out of the garage where you have signal and complete your data entry. Happily, I have my license plate number memorized, because you will need that to complete the process, along with a credit card that they can bill if the game runs longer than 10 hours.
There was no parking short of the third level when I got there. That's ok, because there are elevators.
Well, it would be ok if the elevators were working. Actually, I was told that they *were* working, but that no one could ride on them, because the City of Chicago inspectors had not yet approved them. This meant that I got to walk down two flights of stairs on the way out and *up* two flights of stairs on the way back in, all of this with my improving, but still bum knee.
Happily, the fellow in charge of such things waved me onto the ADA bus, which saved me a good bit of walking tonight. And since we left after the sixth inning, we didn't have to watch as the gate let cars out of the lot, one at a time. Many, many cars...
It's possible that the space that they used for the remote parking lot last year is no longer available -- that's what happened when it moved to the Irving Park / Rockwell space some years ago due to construction at the university it was at. But that space was *so* much better than this garage.
I think if I were confident of finding parking in the Skokie Swift lot, I'd just drive there and pay for parking and the El.
The Cubs new remote parking lot is bad in about every possible way. It takes at least 15 minutes longer to get there than it took to get to the Irving Park lot if you are coming from the west or northwest. It is possibly closer if you are coming from the north, but if you were coming from the north, you could just take the Red Line. I am not sure *who* this location advantages.
The lot is a five story tall parking garage. When you pull into the lot, they tell you to scan a QR code and connect to a website to enter the information to get free parking (which takes the form of a 100% discount on 10 hours of parking). You can't connect to the website once you are *in* the garage, because huge mass of concrete blocking the signal, so you have to wait until you are parked and then walk out of the garage where you have signal and complete your data entry. Happily, I have my license plate number memorized, because you will need that to complete the process, along with a credit card that they can bill if the game runs longer than 10 hours.
There was no parking short of the third level when I got there. That's ok, because there are elevators.
Well, it would be ok if the elevators were working. Actually, I was told that they *were* working, but that no one could ride on them, because the City of Chicago inspectors had not yet approved them. This meant that I got to walk down two flights of stairs on the way out and *up* two flights of stairs on the way back in, all of this with my improving, but still bum knee.
Happily, the fellow in charge of such things waved me onto the ADA bus, which saved me a good bit of walking tonight. And since we left after the sixth inning, we didn't have to watch as the gate let cars out of the lot, one at a time. Many, many cars...
It's possible that the space that they used for the remote parking lot last year is no longer available -- that's what happened when it moved to the Irving Park / Rockwell space some years ago due to construction at the university it was at. But that space was *so* much better than this garage.
I think if I were confident of finding parking in the Skokie Swift lot, I'd just drive there and pay for parking and the El.