Creativity Quote by Billy Corgan

Corgan frames Wrigley Field less as real estate and more as a civic nerve ending, daring any corporate logic to treat it like a line item. The intent is protective and preemptive: he’s not forecasting a protest so much as manufacturing one in advance, staking out the rhetorical high ground before a “Tribune company” cost-benefit memo can harden into inevitability.

The subtext is Chicago’s perennial anxiety about who actually owns its culture. By naming the Tribune company, Corgan points at a familiar American pattern: local icons are often stewarded by institutions whose incentives are portable, quarterly, and emotionally illiterate. Wrigley becomes the test case for whether a city’s memory can be privatized and “optimized” out of existence. It’s also a sly inversion of power. Corporations have lawyers and assets; fans have something messier and harder to price: collective attachment. Corgan turns that attachment into a threat.

“Every corner of the globe” isn’t literal; it’s branding in the best sense, recognizing the Cubs and Wrigley as exportable mythology. The line captures how fandom migrates, how Chicago identity travels with alumni, tourists, and media. Coming from a musician, it’s also a knowing comparison: venues matter. You can stream a song, but you can’t stream the particular, creaky intimacy of a place that has hosted generations. Corgan’s warning is basically: close this, and you’re not just bulldozing bricks - you’re picking a fight with a diaspora.