Union Base-Ball Grounds

About Union Base-Ball Grounds

Union Base-Ball Grounds is a former name of Lake Front Park, used 1871. Lake Front Park was an MLB stadium in Chicago, Illinois. It opened in 1871 and closed in 1884. Its only tenant was Chicago White Stockings (MLB, 1871, 1878–1884). On our ranked lists it ranks 40th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 40th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 25th shortest-lived of 82 MLB stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 94th longest single tenancy (6 years) of the 100 longest on record in MLB stadiums

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

The site today

• The site is now part of Millennium Park, a park.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 212 m of this point).