page_title: List of events at Wrigley Field
section_title: 2009
hierarchical_section_title: List of events at Wrigley Field / 2000s / 2009
caption_attribution_description: This was the site of the Collins &amp; Wiese Coal Company coal field until 1961 when it was demolished. The land was bought by Henry's Drive-In, Inc, and a restaurant and 200 car parking lot was eventually built there. The transaction was the largest real estate deal involving a drive in to date. The drive in restaurant building was recently removed, and the temporary ice rink was put at the site of the parking lot for the off season.
context_page_description: Wrigley Field is a stadium that opened in 1914. It has primarily served as the home field of the Chicago Cubs professional baseball club for over nine decades, but it also hosted football games and other events in its 100 years of existence.
context_section_description: January 1 the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 6-4 in the 2009 NHL Winter Classic. It was the first hockey game played at Wrigley Field. It was also the first non-baseball sporting event since the Chicago Sting played their home games at Wrigley in 1984.
  In January  Tribune Entertainment announced that they had filed Bankrputcy protection in a Cook County Court, and stated that Wrigley Field, and the Chicago Cubs were up for sale. January 22, 2009 Tribune Entertainment stated, that pending the agreement of the MLB owners, Wrigley Field, and the Chicago Cubs, the team would be sold to Tom Ricketts and his family, for $900 million.
  May 3 the Cubs retired the number 31 in honor of both Greg Maddux and Fergie Jenkins.
  July 16 and 21 Elton John and Billy Joel performed two sold-out Face to Face 2009 concerts. The shows were attended by a cumulative audience of 77,520 and grossed $11,154,840.
  October 28 the Ricketts family completed their purchase of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field
  In December 2009 Wrigley Field officials announce the late-December opening of a seasonal ice skating rink in a parking lot next to the stadium.
caption: Wrigley Field ice rink in February 2010.
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