Guaranteed Rate Field

Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Capacity: 40,615
Record Crowd: 47,754 – Chance The Rapper concert (September 24, 2016)
Home Team: Chicago White Sox

Guaranteed Rate Field is a baseball park located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The ballpark serves as the home ballpark for Major League Baseball‘s Chicago White Sox. The facility is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, and is operated by the White Sox.

The park opened for the 1991 season, after the White Sox had spent 81 years at the original Comiskey Park. It also opened with the name Comiskey Park but was renamed U.S. Cellular Field in 2003 after U.S. Cellular purchased the naming rights at $68 million over 20 years. The current name was announced on October 31, 2016, after Guaranteed Rate, a private residential mortgage company located in Chicago, purchased the naming rights to the ballpark in a 13-year deal.

The stadium is situated just to the west of the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago’s Armour Square neighborhood, adjacent to the more famous neighborhood of Bridgeport. It was built directly across 35th Street from old Comiskey Park, which was demolished to make room for a parking lot that serves the venue. Old Comiskey’s home plate location is represented by a marble plaque on the sidewalk next to Guaranteed Rate Field and the foul lines are painted in the parking lot. Also, the spectator ramp across 35th Street is designed in such a way (partly curved, partly straight but angling east-northeast) that it echoes the contour of the old first-base grandstand.

Other than White Sox matches, the stadium has hosted concerts for The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and Chance the Rapper which holds the attendance record of 47,754 on September 24, 2016.