{"id":15867,"date":"2020-07-25T04:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T10:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15867"},"modified":"2020-05-24T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T17:12:34","slug":"200-things-to-do-in-illinois-crosstown-doubleheader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/200-things-to-do-in-illinois-crosstown-doubleheader\/","title":{"rendered":"200 Things To Do In Illinois \u2013 Crosstown Doubleheader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018.\u00a0 To celebrate, the Chicago Tribune published the Bicentennial Bucket List: 200 Things To Do In Illinois, celebrating the best the state has to offer in history, food, architecture, culture, sports, nature, drink, and oddities.\u00a0 Now that the state is starting to open back up following the corona virus outbreak, I figured this was the second-best time to look through this collection and cover the ones I\u2019ve done\/eaten\/seen.<\/p>\n<p>We conclude things this week with one of the entries from the Sports category: Crosstown Doubleheader, from Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cell-newcf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10120\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cell-newcf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cell-newcf.jpg 714w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cell-newcf-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Usually, at least once during the baseball season, there&#8217;s a Cubs home day game followed buy a Sox home night game &#8211; or vice versa.\u00a0 When these scheduling stars align, hop on the Red Line and hit both games for a crosstown day-night doubleheader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/banners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12199\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/banners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/banners.jpg 750w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/banners-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/banners-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>One of the best things about living in a two-team town is the occasional opportunity to take in two games, one at each park, in the same day.\u00a0 There have been 7 times I&#8217;ve watched both the Cubs and the Sox on the same day at their respective homes: first, in 2003 as the Rockies defeated the Cubs and the Mariners throttled the White Sox, and most recently last season, as the Nationals beat the Cubs and the Rangers shut out the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>There was an 8th instance, in 2004, where I took in games in both parks on the same day, but it didn&#8217;t involve the White Sox.\u00a0 The afternoon tilt that day at US Cellular Field was between the Expos and the Marlins, relocated to Chicago due to Hurricane Ivan. That night, the Cubs slipped past the Pirates at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018.\u00a0 To celebrate, the Chicago Tribune published the Bicentennial Bucket List: 200 Things To Do In Illinois, celebrating the best the state has to offer in history, food, architecture, culture, sports, nature, drink, and oddities.\u00a0 Now that the state is starting to open back up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[8856,2878,120,259,4129,124,114,117,112,111,257,7971,596,49],"class_list":["post-15867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-turkeytalk","tag-bicentennial-bucket-list","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-cubs","tag-expos","tag-hurricane-ivan","tag-mariners","tag-marlins","tag-nationals","tag-pirates","tag-rangers","tag-rockies","tag-the-red-line","tag-us-cellular-field","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16197,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867\/revisions\/16197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}