Chicago Whitesox Stadium

Currently, the venue that serves as the Chicago Whitesox stadium is US Cellular Field. Built in time for the 1991 season, the ballpark formerly know as New Comiskey Park changed its name in January of 2003 after US Cellular bought naming rights for 20 years at a cost of $68 million. The venue is located in Armour Square in Chicago at West 35th Street, in the parking lot of its predecessor, the original Comiskey Park. It cost just over $165 million dollars to complete the new park, which is said to have been the last baseball stadium built before the current trend of constructing "throwback" parks began. There are more than 80 luxury suites located throughout US Cellular Field, and maximum seating capacity currently stands at just over 40,000. From home plate it is approximately 330 feet to left field, 335 feet to right field and 400 feet to dead center field.

Comiskey Park: Longtime Chicago Whitesox Stadium

US Cellular Field is just a babe in the woods compared to the former Chicago Whitesox Stadium, the venerable Comiskey Park. Although it wasn't the team's first home -- that would be the 39th Street Grounds, which Chicago called home from their inception until 1910 -- old Comiskey hosted White Sox baseball for 80 years. In that time, it was the site of four World Series and more than 6,000 Major League Baseball games. The first game ever played by the ChiSox at Comiskey was a 2-0 loss to the St. Louis Browns on July 1, 1910, and the last was a 2-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on September 30, 1990. At one time, Comiskey Park held the record for seating capacity with 29,000, and it also hosted the first-ever Major League Baseball All-Star Game. By the early 1970s, it had already become the oldest home field in professional baseball, and it still had a good two more decades in it. Comiskey was demolished in 1991, and home plate from the old park has been bronzed and now rests in front of US Cellular Field as a monument to the grand old park.