The Chicago Bears want to go home again—to stay on their lakefront location in Chicago, but in a new, enclosed, “state of the art” stadium. And they’re hoping to get taxpayer help. The team has pro…
Fans walk outside the stadium before the Chicago Bears play the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field on Oct. 17 2021, in Chicago. The Chicago Bears are set to announce their plans for a new enclosed stadium on the lakefront with taxpayer help — but the team will have to overcome serious skepticism from several directions.
The team has discussed extending the current 2% city hotel tax that is committed to pay for past renovations at Soldier Field and Guaranteed Rate Field, the White Sox ballpark. The Sox also are looking for help to build a new stadium in the South Loop.Then there is the question of whether the Bears can legally build on the site. The city’s Lakefront Protection ordinance calls for public use of the lakefront, and the team has called for public ownership of the stadium.
The city recently went through a similar scenario, he said, when it chose the Bally’s casino for development, only to find the project is already being scaled back and has “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me,” Bradbury said. “The Bears aren’t going to leave one of the most iconic football markets in the country. Tell the Bears to pay for their own damn stadium, and if they don’t like it, to go jump in Lake Michigan.”
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