Cubs blame perfect weather storm and wind conditions for Fall Out Boy fallout

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The Cubs blame what an alderman called a perfect storm of temperature, humidity, air pressure and wind direction for a barrage of noise complaints resulting from Wednesday night’s Fall Out Boy concert at Wrigley Field.

Aldus. Brian Hopkins (2nd) said he lived south of Fullerton in Lincoln Park and could still hear the music from the Fall Out Boy concert loud and clear.

I have lived here for six years now. I’ve never heard a Wrigley concert, Hopkins said.

Hopkins said he has received many complaints from voters asking if noise limits have been changed. Others thought they heard the music after the 11 p.m. cut-off time for amplified music at Wrigley.

I know atmospheric conditions, wind conditions, can really affect how far the sound waves [travel]. It could have been a perfect storm scenario where they played a little louder than they should and the weather allowed the sound to travel a lot farther than they normally do, Hopkins said.

Cubs should have their sound engineers look into PA system amplification [and] the direction of the PA speaker columns and maybe check with [TV weather forecaster] Tom Skilling. See if there was anything particular about the weather that night that would make it easier for the sound waves to travel further than they normally do.

After speaking to the Sun-Times, Hopkins called the Cubs.

A team manager assured him that Fall Out Boy stopped playing at 10:57 p.m. Wednesday three minutes before the end of the session at 11 p.m. The Cubs also told Hopkins that the amplification system did not exceed the maximum limits imposed by the city, he said.

They said Morgan Wallen, who performed at Wrigley Thursday night and was scheduled to reappear Friday night, was at the same decibel level on the AP as Fall Out Boy and there were no complaints, Hopkins said.

The meteorological factors they cite are temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and wind direction. The combination of these factors creates conditions that can allow sound to travel more efficiently than normal. And they think that was the case during the Fall Out Boys.

Now realizing that what I thought was the music of a block party a few blocks away last night was actually Fall Out Boy playing at Wrigley Field 2.5 miles away

— Kyle Wolfe (@KylePWolfe) June 22, 2023

To support the team’s claim, the Cubs told Hopkins that they had collected a collection of noise complaints from the Fall Out Boy concert.

There were no complaints from the east between Wrigley Field and the lakefront, not even residential condo towers much closer to the field than Lincoln Park. Complaints came from the south and west. This therefore supports the idea that it is the atmospheric conditions and the direction of the wind that are the cause. This confirms their assertion that this was a unique case, Hopkins said.

Cubs spokeswoman Jennifer Martinez called it a rare occurrence from Mother Nature.

Stronger winds and low humidity pushed the sound 3 miles in that direction, while we had people in our parking lot the other way where you couldn’t hear as much sound, Martinez said.

It was such a rare event. We haven’t experienced this since we installed our video card in 2015.

The Cubs have hosted nearly 70 concerts since 2005, she said.

We do sound checks for every show, and noise levels are consistent from show to show, regardless of performer, in keeping with City Night [game] prescription, Martinez said.

The Cubs are enjoying the gigs while the team is in London for a two-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals which begins Saturday.

I can hear Fall Out Boy playing terrible Journey covers a mile from Wrigley. Stop that.

— Garrett Karp (@garpo3000) June 22, 2023

Aldus. Bennett Lawson (44th), whose neighborhood includes Wrigley, could not be reached.

Ald neighbor. Timmy Knudsen (43rd) said he received three complaints from voters. But looking at Twitter, it looks like a lot of people have heard it, Knudsen said.

Aldus. Angela Clay (46th), from another nearby ward, said she had read some of the tweets complaining about the noise but hadn’t heard from her constituents.

The Wednesday concert of Fall Out Boy has been talked about on Twitter and not necessarily in a good way.

Residents of Lake View, Ravenswood, North Center, Roscoe Village, Bucktown and Lincoln Park said they could hear it. The hometown show that launched bands So Much For (Tour) Dust could be heard just outside the brick walls of Wrigleys several miles away, they said.

The Fall Out Boy gig at Wrigley is so loud it needs to end quickly, wrote a user named Andy.

We went out for a walk. Why does it sound like Sugar, Were Going Down? ‘Cause I can hear Fall Out Boy from Wrigley Field, and I’m across the river. It’s incredible. And this song is a banger. pic.twitter.com/YalKxDpqEL

— Carolyn Kassnoff (@ItllGlowOnYou) June 22, 2023

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