Jamon Ford, 27, a mechanical engineer who was in town over the weekend from Detroit for a jam band concert, dropped in Monday for a game at Maggie Daley Park, which, along with Horner Park, are two of the biggest pickle destinations in the city. Pickle heads from out of town scratch their heads when they come to Chicago and learn the size of the game’s footprint here. “Someone will come along who has the brand power to get it done.” “Sooner or later we’ll find a champion,” he said, noting Bill Gates’ and Drew Brees’ support in growing the game of pickleball. If anyone from the city or who was politically connected were actively involved in our community they would point us in the right way and we’d have giant infrastructure for the game like every other city, but we don’t have that lynch pin,” he said. The biggest difference is we don’t have the correct advocates as part of our community. The real difference maker is a lack of support and will, he said. The game is growing and drawing younger participants.
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The city’s pickleball community note, with a sigh, that a pro pickleball tournament dubbed the “Chicago Open” was actually being held this week at dedicated courts in north suburban Highland Park - with a purse of $50,000 to be split among the top finishers.īut the demand is there. “We have one location in the entire city that’s a dedicated pickleball location and that’s at Gwendolyn Brooks Park in Kenwood, and there’s only four courts there,” he said. “Chicago is just light-years behind the rest of the world in the development of pickleball,” said Steven DeMar, the administrator of the Chicago Pickleball Facebook page. But the space is still shared, and the arrangement has left many pickleballers wanting a space of their own. One tennis court can hold four pickleball courts. Most pickleball is played on tennis courts that also have pickleball lines painted on them. One of the main things that holds the sport back from the growth it’s seen in other parts of Illinois and places all over the country is a lack of dedicated courts designed and built for only pickleball. If only pickleball rackets could replace guns,” Archibald said. You can come, even if you’re a beginner, and find people to play with. It does not store any personal data.Anyone and everyone is welcome, they said of the drop-in nature of the game. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
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