Details of the Illinois vs Northwestern Wrigley Field football game to be announced this morning
April 23, 2010 8:31 AM
Watch the 11:00am CT press conference online
Chicago will get a new, colorful image Nov. 20.
That's when seas of purple and orange will fill the Friendly Confines for a game between Northwestern and Illinois. Details will be unveiled at an 11 a.m. news conference Friday at Wrigley Field.
The principals in putting the game together -- NU athletic director Jim Phillips and Cubs President Crane Kenney -- will be there, as will representatives from the Bears, who called Wrigley home from 1921 to '70.
The television partner will be either ESPN or ESPN2, the Tribune has learned, and kickoff will be at 11 a.m.
chicagotribune.com
That's when seas of purple and orange will fill the Friendly Confines for a game between Northwestern and Illinois. Details will be unveiled at an 11 a.m. news conference Friday at Wrigley Field.
The principals in putting the game together -- NU athletic director Jim Phillips and Cubs President Crane Kenney -- will be there, as will representatives from the Bears, who called Wrigley home from 1921 to '70.
The television partner will be either ESPN or ESPN2, the Tribune has learned, and kickoff will be at 11 a.m.
chicagotribune.com
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