Originally Posted By: wagga
So exactly what happened here?

The place was originally called "Marshall Field" (named after... who else... Marshall Field). Then Amos Alonzo Stagg got to be a big deal so the name was changed. Then the University of Chicago dropped football and no longer needed its stadium for home games. Then people discovered nuclear fission and Enrico Fermi led a team that did a very famous experiment under the stands. It is commonly called the world's first, but it wasn't. Later, a Henry Moore sculpture called "Nuclear Energy" was installed. That's your picture. The first is my picture.