Rate Field

**Rate Field** is a baseball park in Chicago, Illinois. It is the home field of the Major League Baseball team called the Chicago White Sox. It opened in 1991, replacing historic Comiskey Park. Before U.S. Cellular, a wireless telephone carrier, bought naming rights in 2003, with the stadium then being renamed **U.S. Cellular Field**, the ballpark was known as **New Comiskey Park** (or just "Comiskey Park"), in honor of the old park.

The stadium name lost most of its value in Chicago after the company sold its local network to Sprint in 2012. During the 2016 MLB season, the White Sox made a new deal with Chicago-based mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate. The stadium name officially changed on November 1 of that year. In late 2024, Guaranteed Rate changed its name to Rate, and the ballpark name was changed that December 18.

## Sources

- _Green Cathedrals_, by Philip J. Lowry

## Other websites

- Stadium site on whitesox.com
- ISFAuthority.com
- Andrewclem.com
- Ballparksofbaseball.com
- Ballparks.com
- Aerial view of Guaranteed Rate Field
- U.S. Cellular Field Seating Chart

## Infobox (stadium)

- **stadium name**: Rate Field
- **nickname**: (_New_) _Comiskey Park_
_"The Arrow"_
_"The G-Spot"_
- **image**:
- **caption**: Rate Field (then U.S. Cellular Field) on Opening Day 2014
- **location**: 333 West 35th Street
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60616
- **publictransit**: Sox–35th (CTA station)
35th–Bronzeville–IIT (CTA station)
- **broke ground**: May 7, 1989
- **built**: 1989–1991
- **opened**: April 18, 1991
- **renovated**: 2001–2011
- **owner**: Illinois Sports Facilities Authority
- **operator**: Chicago White Sox, Chicago White Sox Ltd.
- **surface**: Kentucky bluegrass, Bluegrass
- **scoreboard**: Center Field full-color, high resolution video board  x  (2003–present)
 Right Field LED Display out-of-town scoreboard  x  (2009–present)
Left Field matrix board (2003–present)
Fan Deck ticker board (2003–present)
2 small scoreboards along the facade down the Right Field and Left Field lines below the 500 level
- **construction cost**: US$167 million
($ in  dollars)

$118 million (2001–2007 renovations)
($ in  dollars)
- **architect**: HOK Sport (now Populous (company), Populous) (original)
HKS, Inc. (2001–2007 renovations)
- **project manager**: International Facilities Group, LLC
- **structural engineer**: Thornton Tomasetti
- **services engineer**: WSP Group, Flack + Kurtz
- **general contractor**: Tutor Perini, Gust K. Newberg Construction Company
- **former names**: Comiskey Park (II) (1991–2003)
U.S. Cellular Field (2003–2016)
Guaranteed Rate Field (2016–2024)
- **tenants**: Chicago White Sox (Major League Baseball, MLB) (1991–present)
- **seating capacity**: 40,615 (2004–present)
47,098 (2003)
45,936 (2001–2002)
44,321 (1991–2000)
- **record attendance**: 47,609
July 15, 2003
2003 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 74th All-Star Game

White Sox game: 46,246
October 5, 1993
Game 1 of the 1993 American League Championship Series, 1993 ALCS

Post-renovations: 41,432
October 23, 2005
Game 2 of the 2005 World Series
- **dimensions**: (2001–present)
**Left Field** –
**Left-Center** –  (Not Posted)
**Center Field** –
**Right-Center** –  (Not Posted)
**Right Field** –
**Backstop** –
**Outfield Wall Height** –

(1991–2000)
**Left Field** –
**Left-Center** –
**Center Field** –
**Right-Center** –
**Right Field** –
**Backstop** –
**Outfield Wall Height** –