Cubs pull ticket offer to aldermen after ethics flap

If Chicago aldermen want to go to the World Series at Wrigley Field, they'll have to cough up big bucks on the secondary market just like the rest of us die-hard Cubs fans.

To the delight of the newly-appointed Ethics Board chairman and the disdain of the City Council, the Cubs have pulled the lucrative offer to let aldermen purchase tickets at face value for the third, fourth and fifth games of the Series.

The about-face comes three days after the city's Board of Ethics issued new rules that made it more difficult for aldermen, who preside over all things Wrigley Field, to take advantage of the ticket offer.

The ethics ordinance prohibits city employees and elected officials from accepting gifts worth more than $50. The difference between the face value of Cubs playoff tickets and the "commonly understood fair market value" exceeds that $50 limit, the board has said.

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