ON SET: Netflix releasing a documentary focusing on the Chicago Bears’ victory over the NFL………
ON SET: Netflix releasing a documentary focusing on the Chicago Bears’ victory over the NFL………
The Chicago Bears embarked on a new era in February 2023 with the purchase of a site in Arlington Heights where the team hopes to build a new enclosed stadium with a massive entertainment and residential development.
In April 2024, the team laid out elaborate plans for a new publicly owned domed stadium on the lakefront but left unanswered how the city would pay for expensive infrastructure improvements.
With a dazzling video presentation of a stadium featuring a translucent roof and a glass wall with a view of downtown, team President and CEO Kevin Warren presented his vision for a $3.2 billion focal point for great city gatherings, not just football.
The city has an opportunity to build an international attraction that would resonate for generations to come, Warren told a crowd of supporters at the Bears current home, 100-year-old Soldier Field.
“It’s time for us to do something special together,” he said.
Can the Bears’ lakefront dreams actually come true? What does this mean for the Arlington Heights property? And what about other municipalities that had previously thrown their hat in the ring? Here’s what to know.
Unlike Soldier Field, it could hold events year-round, including concerts, soccer, college basketball playoffs, or, once in a great while, the Super Bowl.
Soldier Field would be torn down, but its colonnades would be saved and 14 acres of athletic fields and open space added in between and to the north of the colonnades, for use by local sports teams, graduations and other events. If approved this year, the stadium would open in 2028.
