Justin Ishbia buys property in South Loop (Hour 3)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In the third hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes reacted to the news that White Sox owner-in-waiting Justin Ishbia is set to purchase a South Loop rail yard to potentially be the site of a new stadium for the organization. After that, they discussed how the Cubs got good news in learning that right fielder Seiya Suzuki suffered a PCL strain in his right knee rather than something more serious.

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0:00.0	Broadcasting live from the Hyundai Studios, presented you in part by your local Hyundai dealers.
0:05.2	This is Chicago's number one most listened to Sports Station.
0:08.6	1043 The Score is Chicago Sports.
0:11.5	Chicago Sports is 1043 The Score.
0:14.3	Always live on the free Odyssey app.
0:16.5	WSCR, WSCRFM and HD1 Chicago in Odyssey Sports Station.
0:23.3	The SCOR!
0:26.7	Justin Ishby is not going to privately finance a ballpark in Chicago.
0:31.4	It's just not going to happen.
0:32.8	There will be public money.
0:34.6	There will be tax incentives, whatever form it will take.
0:37.8	And sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.
0:40.8	Go listen to a show by my friend Pablo Tori finds out.
0:44.2	He did a whole show about Matt Ishbia.
0:46.6	And you're not getting, you know, Santa Claus or the Pope.
0:53.2	This David Samson talking about Justin Isbia.
0:58.7	Justin Isbia is making real estate news today.
1:02.7	And it has a lot of people wondering, is he making White Sox News today?
1:07.6	I think it's hard not to see this as White Sox News today. It's fascinating. You know,
1:15.0	anybody who has driven by this neighborhood that's called the 78, where the Chicago Fire is building
1:24.2	a soccer team with our friend Gabe Ramirez. That they're paying for. Absolutely. So anybody who's driven by that has looked at it and probably thought about what has also been written about multiple times. Is there even enough room for a second stadium there? Like now that there's going to be a soccer stadium, I don't know that there's enough room for a baseball stadium. It's interesting geography that you have to deal with, including like train tracks and the river.
1:47.0	The river.
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