Mayor Lightfoot says the Chicago Bears Arlington Heights stadium won't come to fruition, and the team will instead be at a renovated Soldier Field.
Mayor Lightfoot says the Chicago Bears Arlington Heights stadium won't come to fruition, and the team will instead be at a renovated Soldier Field.Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday that she believes the Bears will end up right where they started - staying put at a renovated, domed Soldier Field - even after spending $197.2 million to acquire the Arlington International Racecourse site.
"I'm excited for the opportunity for us to make the business case to have the Bears stay in our city. We've demonstrated that the number of opportunities that they're gonna get - with the number of tourists that come to our city every year, the amount of additional revenue opportunities that can be generated from Soldier Field - those simply can't be matched," she said.
At the time, the mayor said a portion of the cost would be paid for by selling naming rights "in a way that respects Soldier Field's legacy as a war memorial by keeping Soldier in the name of the facility," as the working group that Lightfoot charged with re-imagining the Museum Campus suggested in its 50-page report.A top mayoral aide said there were sponsorship opportunities in other areas inside the stadium.
"If you look at, for example, SoFi stadium right outside of Los Angeles in Inglewood. If you look at the stadium that was built in Las Vegas. Those are $4 billion and $5 billion stadiums. The Bears haven't even put a shovel in the ground yet for Arlington Heights. I don't know where that money is going to come from," Lightfoot said.
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