Poll: Voters give axe to Ricketts plan for ticket tax

By Rick Pearson and Cynthia Dizikes

More than half of Chicago voters don't like the idea of spending future gains in city and county ticket taxes on renovating Wrigley Field, a new Tribune/WGN poll shows.

Such sentiment mirrored the General Assembly's lack of response this month to Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts' first pitch at asking for help paying for improvements to the 96-year-old ballpark.

The team's new ownership suggested using the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, the state agency that owns the ballpark the White Sox call home, to borrow about $250 million. Under the plan, the loan would be repaid by using growth in the 12 percent amusement tax levied on tickets at Wrigley for at least 35 years.

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Source: http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/12/poll-voters-give-axe-to-ricketts-plan-for-ticket-tax.html

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