Rate Field
White Sox Park Sox Park New Comiskey The Cell | |
Rate Field in 2023 | |
| Former names | Comiskey Park II (1991–2003) U.S. Cellular Field (2003–2016) Guaranteed Rate Field (2016–2024) |
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| Address | 333 West 35th Street |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 41°49′48″N 87°38′2″W / 41.83000°N 87.63389°W |
| Owner | Illinois Sports Facilities Authority |
| Operator | Illinois Sports Facilities Authority |
| Capacity | 40,615 (2004–present) 47,098 (2002–2003) 47,522 (2001) 44,321 (1991–2000) |
| Surface | Kentucky Bluegrass |
| Scoreboard | 8,000 square foot Center field HD video board 60 feet (18 m) × 134 feet (41 m) (2016–present) 2,500 square foot auxiliary video boards in Right & Left Field (2016–present) LED Ribbon Board, facade of the 500 level (2018–present) Fan Deck Ribbon Board (2003–present) |
| Record attendance | 47,754 (September 24, 2016; Chance the Rapper concert) White Sox game: 46,246 (October 5, 1993; ALCS Game 1) Post-renovations: 41,432 (October 23, 2005; World Series Game 2) |
| Field size | (2001–present) Left field – 330 ft (100 m) Left-center – 375 ft (114 m) (not posted) Center field – 400 ft (120 m) Right-center – 375 ft (114 m) (not posted) Right field – 335 ft (102 m) Backstop – 60 ft (18 m) Outfield wall height – 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Public transit | Red at Sox–35th Green at 35th–Bronzeville–IIT RI at 35th Street-Lou Jones |
| Parking | 8 main parking lots |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | May 7, 1989 |
| Built | 1989–1990 |
| Opened | April 18, 1991 |
| Renovated | 2001–2012, 2015–2019 |
| Construction cost | US$137 million ($324 million in 2025 dollars) US$118 million (2001–2007 renovations) ($183 million in 2025 dollars) |
| Architect | HOK Sport HKS, Inc. (2001–2007 renovations) |
| Project manager | International Facilities Group, LLC |
| Structural engineer | Thornton Tomasetti |
| Services engineer | Flack + Kurtz |
| General contractor | Gust K. Newberg Construction Company |
| Tenants | |
| Chicago White Sox (MLB) (1991–present) | |
| Website | |
| mlb.com/whitesox/ballpark | |
Rate Field (formerly Comiskey Park II, U.S. Cellular Field, and Guaranteed Rate Field) is a baseball stadium on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home ballpark of the Chicago White Sox, one of the city's two Major League Baseball teams, and is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. Built for US$137 million, the park opened as Comiskey Park on April 18, 1991, taking its name from the original Comiskey Park, the team's home since 1910.
Rate Field sits just west of the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago's Armour Square neighborhood, next to the more famous neighborhood of Bridgeport. The stadium was built across 35th Street from the original Comiskey Park, which was demolished to make room for a parking lot. The location of Old Comiskey's home plate is indicated by a marble plaque on the sidewalk next to Rate Field, with the foul lines painted in the parking lot. The east-northeasterly spectator ramp across 35th Street was designed to echo the contour of the old first-base grandstand.