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Bears president: Lakefront stadium gives team ‘best opportunity for success’

Chicago Sun-Times | March 26, 2024

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The area immediately south of Soldier Field includes a parking garage (center) and surface lot (lower left). The Bears are looking at that land as the potential site of a new lakefront domed stadium.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Building a stadium on the Lakefront will give the Bears “the best opportunity for success,” president/CEO Kevin Warren said Tuesday at the NFL’s annual meetings.

It was the latest declaration from the Bears that playing downtown — and not on the 326-acre property it bought in Arlington Heights — is their preferred course of action.

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