(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- With the Cubs and Sox playing and USA and the Netherlands going head-to-head in Women's World Cup soccer, sports bars all over the city were expecting full houses Wednesday.
"The larger your party is, the earlier you'll want to show up to make sure that you get your seats,” advised Jane Chaman, a bartender at AJ Hudson's Public House in North Center.
It’s one of many bars that was showing the USA-Netherlands game.
In Garfield Ridge, Joe Guide, the owner of Guide's Sports Bar, said he's gotten a lot of calls about the soccer game.
"It'll definitely be on. Phone calls have been coming in since 10 o'clock this morning."
Guide, who's owned the bar since 1979, says most of his soccer-fan customers are Latino and from countries where soccer is part of the national DNA.
"They know the game, too, lemme tell you. I've been learning. I've been asking questions," he says, laughing. "They've been teaching me. I'm the football-baseball-basketball guy."
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