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Tears welled in Bears chairman George McCaskey’s eyes when asked what Sunday’s exhibition opener will feel like without his mom Virginia, who died in February at 102.
“It’ll be an adjustment,” he said. “Sunday and next Sunday will help, because I think [the season opener] Sept. 8, it will be difficult. But again, she showed us the way. Her leadership, her guidance, her direction has been invaluable, and we’re all the beneficiaries of it.”
The matriarch’s death signaled a new era of Bears football — aspects of which the team’s top executives addressed Friday at Halas Hall:
They’re focused on Arlington Heights
The 326-acre former Arlington International Racecourse is the only site that makes sense for the Bears to build a stadium on, president/CEO Kevin Warren reiterated.