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The Chicago Bears’ drive for a new lakefront domed stadium won’t break the line of scrimmage unless they receive at least $325 million in public funding for initial infrastructure upgrades to improve traffic flow into and out of a revamped Museum Campus, team officials said during their kickoff pitch Wednesday.
And that’s just for the first phase of improvements the Bears want to see around their potential new home, as well as a repurposed Soldier Field, according to Karen Murphy, the team’s executive vice president of stadium development.
Two additional infrastructure phases that would “maximize the site” and bring “additional opportunities for publicly owned amenities” would bring taxpayers’ tab to $1.