{"id":24308,"date":"2026-05-20T04:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24308"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:57:31","slug":"no-bets-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/no-bets-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bets For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sportsbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20380\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sportsbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sportsbook.jpg 656w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sportsbook-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a>After just two years, DraftKings announced that they will be shuttering their in-person sportsbook hanging off the side of Wrigley Field on May 31.\u00a0 In a statement, the company says, &#8220;The cost of operating in Illinois, including its high tax structure, makes it more difficult to justify continued investment in a standalone retail sportsbook.&#8221;\u00a0 The sports bar part of the operation will continue, as will the DraftKings sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this change, the area should become a little more accessible.\u00a0 With the removal of the sportsbook, the requirement to be 21 to enter should be removed.\u00a0 Additionally, fans will be able to enter and exit into the ballpark itself eventually, similar to Gallagher Way.\u00a0 That change will likely limit the building on game days to those with a ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Short term, there should be no financial impact for the Cubs.\u00a0 The original deal was $100 million for ten years and, while the two sides shared some revenue from food and beverage sales, the Cubs were not involved in the gambling end of the partnership.\u00a0 Long term, I&#8217;m sure that $100 million figure included some expectation of revenues to be generated from the sportsbook, and it seems unlikely that a renewal will touch that amount.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three years since the building first opened as a sports bar, I&#8217;ve only been inside once, and that was just for a quick walkaround.\u00a0 The next dollar I spend there will be my first, and I don&#8217;t envision that changing anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After just two years, DraftKings announced that they will be shuttering their in-person sportsbook hanging off the side of Wrigley Field on May 31.\u00a0 In a statement, the company says, &#8220;The cost of operating in Illinois, including its high tax structure, makes it more difficult to justify continued investment in a standalone retail sportsbook.&#8221;\u00a0 The [&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],"tags":[120,9719,9718,595],"class_list":["post-24308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-draftkings","tag-draftkings-sportsbook","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24308","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=24308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24309,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24308\/revisions\/24309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}