Oddly enough the original address of Wrigley Field was 1052 West Addison Street. Wrigley Field by Stuart Shea doesn’t explain how the street number changed.
I always wondered how they arrived at the specific address (the xx in 10xx), since it takes up the whole damn block. The xx would appear to be completely random, unless there is some sort of scheme for this type of situation.
1060 roughly corresponds to this door.
Cops, or maybe, cop… it was John Candy that saw through it:
*Ellwood: Hey Lloyd, anybody call for me on the phone?
Lloyd: No, no calls. Some guy left this card. Cop. Said he’d be back. *
Wow. I think this is the first time I’ve seen one of my own posts rise from the grave.
I’m ashamed to say, I still haven’t seen The Blues Brothers again in the nearly two years since I made that post. 
Could this be the first true zombie from the Chicago forum, or at least the first double zombie?
I got a answer for Jake!!!
I was thinking I love the Blues Brothers to ,and the reason why Jake might have said thats Wrigley Feild isnt it? He might have used the address himself earleir in his life~ I thought about putting that for my address next time I renew my license just to see if the people here in Oklahoma at the hp would notice it 
LOL!!! 1060 W Madison, Chicao,Il. 60613
Addison, starshipe, not Madison. Madison is downtown, between Washington and Monroe. I think 1060 W would be just outside the Loop.
I don’t think sports fans necessarily know the addresses of the arenas.
I can tell you exactly where the Astrodome is and the Summit was in Houston (the venues when I grew up there), but I couldn’t tell you the street number on Kirby or Richmond of either of them. Or for that matter, if the Summit was actually on 59 or Edloe for that matter.
Also, if you remember the scene, Jake pauses for a moment before identifying the location. He says, “1060 West Addison… That’s Wrigley Field…”
During the length of that pause, anyone familiar with Chicago’s grid would be able to determine where 1060 West Addison falls. Jake’s tone also indicates both realization and amusement. He doesn’t say it matter-of-factly. It’s more like, “Heyyyy… that’s awesome.”
Watch the scene again. You’ll see what I mean.
Here’s the whole scene. Start at 1:15 if you want to skip to the appropriate part.
Where do people park when they go to a game at Wrigley Field? These days most stadiums and arenas are surrounded by huge parking lots, but looking at Google Maps I don’t see that around Wrigley. So where do the thousands of cars go?
I’ve been to Wrigley Field once, back in the early 80s. Don’t remember where we parked (or who the Cubs played that day).
Here you go. When I go to a day game, I can often find parking in the neighborhood, if you don’t mind walking a bit. The ones that aren’t permit parking usually only have restrictions for night games. Otherwise, there’s a bunch of lots nearby, enterprising folks who rent out spaces on properties they own, or park a few Red Line stops up and take the El to Wrigley.
Thanks for the reply. Your link didn’t work for me until I removed a few characters and tried this.
Walking a few blocks is a small price to pay. I know it was a day game we went to (they were all day games back then, before lights were installed).
On my street. Well, not exactly on my street (thank god!), but there are two large parking lots near me that are available for game day parking, with shuttle buses to take you to the field. (Since the last time I posted here, I’ve now moved to almost exactly 2 miles west of the ballpark. Walkable, but not pleasant. Take the shuttle.)
That link has some of the area Cubs parking, but not all of it. It extends at least another mile to the west.
Oh, shitski. Left off the closing quote in the URL. Grrr.
I see a lot of people saying things like 'well, if you know Chicago, you’d be able to figure out that…" Personally, I don’t buy that. Even if you do know about what street works out to what hundred block AND you happen to know the exact cross roads of the stadium, you’d still have to know what the stadium’s address is, maybe 1060 is some little spot on the corner or if you had your directions mixed up (or didn’t know), you could very easily think it’s something a block one way or the other or across the street.
I’m not a big baseball person at all, I’ve been to one game at Wrigley Field and I was really surprised that it was just smacked right in the middle of city. Like, we just parked in front of someone’s house walked about a mile and we were there. So as someone upthread (and years ago) mentioned, if you don’t live in the suburb, would you really have any reason to know it? I don’t know, I don’t spend a lot of time in Chicago.
I looked the address for Miller Stadium, it’s…well, it’s 1 Brewers Way…but County Stadium was 201 South 46th Street. Tell that to any random person that lives in Milwaukee and you’ll probably hear things like “That’s near the Casino” or “That’s near the VA Hospital”, you might hear a lot of people telling you it’s “in the valley” and people that know that area will probably tell you that it sounds like it’s ‘right off Miller Parkway’, but if you gave that to someone, even a police officer, I doubt they’d know it was the address for the Stadium (even when it was the actual address).
But again, I know Wrigley is right in the middle of a residential city, Miller Stadium…not so much.
Humans being humans are going to get stuff wrong a bit, sure. But if you know the North Side, you do know that Sheffield is 1000 W. If you know the city, you know that even numbers are on the north and west, odd numbers are on the south and east. And if you know the Cubs, you know that Sheffield is behind right field. Those three pieces of information, and you can deduce that all even numbers 10xx W Addison have to point to Wrigley Field (since it’s the only thing on its block). The exact address, yeah, that’s impossible to deduce. But the general form of the address, sure, and it’s definitely plausible that Jake would fire up his internal Google Maps and figure out that 1060 W Addison had to be Wrigley.
Actually, there’s a bit of a control here. I don’t know the address for U.S. Cellular Field (or Guaranteed Rate Field or whatever they call it now), since there aren’t any movies that reference its address (that I know of), but I could make an educated guess. It’s gotta be something like 301 W 35th or 3501 S Shields. Anything in that general vicinity has gotta be the stadium, since it sits smack in the middle of a sea of parking.
People keep saying this. No. No, we* don’t *all know these things. I’ve now lived on the North Side for 15 years, and the most I could come up with off your list is the odds and evens, but I’d have to think about a couple of addresses I do know to remember which is which.
AND I DRIVE IN CHICAGO FOR A LIVING. You want to know why I don’t know the 100 of Sheffield? Because I don’t care. I don’t need to. Partly because I don’t have to go over there very often, but mostly because I use a GPS to get me where I need to be. That, of course, wouldn’t have been a factor when the movie came out, but all y’all saying that every Chicagoan would know these things today are…perhaps showing your age.
I don’t even know the 100 block of California Ave, and I live on it! 100 blocks are a quaint, adorable system, but you can live and get around in Chicago without memorizing any of them.
I’ve not been to Wrigley, but a quick look at the Google thingy says it occupies a 4-sided block consisting of Addison, Sheffield, Waveland, and Seminary. With a corner slightly knocked off where diagonal Clark St passes by. As well Seminary along the stadium boundary and for a couple blocks beyond in either direction has been converted into parking.
*A priori *there’s no particular reason to assume the official street address is on Addison. The center of the stands behind home plate are pretty much exactly at the three-way intersection where Addison and Clark cross and where Seminary used to be.
There’s another office-like area of the stadium at the diagonally opposite corner of Sheffield & Waveland which could plausibly be the official address.
My bottom line: Somebody who knows Chicago well could deduce the correct hundreds block number for Wrigley’s frontage on all 5 streets. But that’s it. Doing anything more takes specific knowledge of Wrigley’s actual address. “Addison” is only a guess with a one-in-fiveish chance of being correct.
And I’m another vote that the point of the line in the movie was that Elwood and Jake shared this cool insider trivia fact that the cops, Nazis, and ordinary Chicagoans of the era would not.