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Cubs Hotel Tax Idea Is No Home Run

CHICAGO (WBBM) - A plan to use taxpayer money to help renovate Wrigley Field may be in need of 9th inning heroics.

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The Cubs want to use extra money from the city's amusement tax to pay for $200 million in bonds to help renovate the aging North Side ballpark.

But, the Chicago Sun-Times reports, the Cubs' idea to use hotel tax money just in case there's not enough of an increase in amusement tax money is not sitting well with the city.

The Cubs the city and others are looking over other possible options to get the plan across the plate.

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