What would the Chicago Bears lakefront stadium look like?

The Chicago Bears revealed a plan for their new stadium Monday on the lakefront of the Windy City.
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[@carlosbarahona8609]

Go Bears ❤

[@ScottBartos270]

Bears need to find a winning team

[@user-oc4hg9tg7e]

Big facts 😂😂

[@user-jf4nj3ez2k]

Will be 4-13 this year Probably would have made the playoffs of they had kept Fields.

[@jamesvokral4934]

This plan is so seriously flawed it is hard to know where to begin. Traffic is already horrendous and will only get worse. 2 billion from the Bears will be more than matched by the taxpayers who will pay at least this amount for all the improvements, cost overruns, and union construction labor. Socialism for billionaires and capitalism for the poor fans who will pay for this fiasco and will never be able to afford to go to see the games.

[@charlescornyn2115]

I say they can have our tax money if they give us all free tickets forever

[@a.barker7792]

What about infrastructure money from mayor Pete? I say you tweek the stadium, build up mass transit with light rail. And build over LSD, 1 mile long. 1/2 miles wide.

[@kirkjurgens3137]

They caved. Arlington Heights is so much easier to get to; less crime; cheaper parking...get in and get out. Driving to the lakefront is expensive and a pain.

[@richfarfugnuven6308]

100%

[@MrTSoukup76]

Less crime? Is their crime around Soldier Field I am unaware of?

[@ivanwilson5941]

Tell me about a crime incident involving a fan around Soldier Field

[@gandres_07]

The likelihood of you getting jumped or robbed near or at solider field is greater. @@MrTSoukup76

[@johnblaze21519]

Don't have the lake or the skyline though

[@_face773]

Go to Arlington

[@a.barker7792]

How many games you plan on attending? Last thing you've attended?

[@michaelkawell3300]

Thank god

[@tomhartman2254]

I was also confused about the logistics of parking and traffic, I cant see how that is improved without a ton of rework.

[@jamesvokral4934]

There is no traffic solution. 75000 people converging on a lakefront stadium with no access from the east makes crushing traffic a problem no amount of engineering can solve.

[@a.barker7792]

Easy, build over lake shore drive. ..... And ..... go under ground on the south lot for parking. TRIPLE THE SPACE AND BUILD IT ON TOP AS GREEN SPACE.

[@a.barker7792]

​@@jamesvokral4934mass trasit increase. All the lines from the west can easily be incased in a modern hub with shops.

[@jerryw2594]

It’s not sufficient to merely have enough parking…..you need to have enough parking that allows for tailgating.

[@htstffcmnthru]

I thought we already had a lakefront stadium 🤔

[@ksvage666]

I thought the same 😂

[@blackrocks8413]

design it to look like a giant immigrant shelter. You may need it for that soon.

[@Madskillsuniversity]

Sure, for 2033? LOL SMH

[@pray332]

Parking is my only problem. Always has been. Arlington Heights would have been a pretty amazing complex. GO BEARS!!

[@user-tb2wz1tr8y]

They went with a spaceship landing effect last time. What will they come up with next?

[@JOHNNYCHICAGO8]

The new Stadium will be nice 🏈💯🐻⬇️🧡💙 Chicago Pride ☆☆☆☆☆

[@MrBobochow]

Let’s get the Bears out Chicago !

[@seanchelsey99]

Plan hinges on the city and state paying for all of it. Remember Grandma McCaskey and her 12 kids need a new pair of very expensive shoes. Bears net $190 million/year. Seems like a lot but split up it's only $15 million each and who can live on that meager 5th highest profit in the NFL.

[@toniccoker]

Bears need to build a winning team I still rather for the stadium to be outside not a inside

[@faustoespin4131]

It is a chaos when the Bears play traffic is insane. How are they going to build a lot of parking ? Also the turf has to be grass

[@user-jf4nj3ez2k]

Gonna have even less parking than now if they build it.

[@GoF.URself8345]

Going to a football game sucks. Unless, you are sitting from the 35 to 35. Watching it on tv is so much better. Plus, put them in AH. Don’t wanna deal with the smash and grabbers

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

Wow, they'll put up 2 bil on a project that will cost 4 or 5 bil, maybe more? How generous. Cook county taxes are going to triple. If they want a world-class stadium, they can pay for every cent. They're the only ones who will benefit from it.

[@tsrgoinc]

Yeah believe it the day I see the team run out for the 1st game!

[@MrTSoukup76]

Wait wait wait. Lou has seen the renderings???! What the s**t is that? Show them to the public!!

[@franzdoreza5230]

It would be great to have the Bears stay in the city, but that soldier Field colonnade? It’s not exactly attractive… I think they can build a much better monument for those fallen soldiers and for the ones who are still alive. I mean seriously, it looks Updated and something from the 1933 worlds fair, or whenever that was. They could build a really great looking monument… And build a fantastic stadium with all these different amenities with even a botanical garden if they want within the stadium area and park so the fans can enjoy so many different things besides football. Even outdoor concerts would be so much more fun when surrounded by beautiful greenery.

[@user-jf4nj3ez2k]

Its gonna blow. A dome. Not even a retractable roof.

[@vernongeorge8262]

If they can get past ENEMIES OF THE PARKS the Bears can have a Stadium but also include Northerly Island tear down sSoldiers Field and refurbish the Colonades and tear down the old McCormick place .....I dont know how much under ground parking you can have or if you can build parking over the train tracks ?

[@John-cp9ez]

Stupid idea. But what else can you expect from the bears. Same bullshit

[@josephmorabito6992]

Wrong on star wars. They may created jobs at first but they wanted to pay nothing yearly for lake front property for star wars. That's ridiculous

[@a.barker7792]

Why build at all? New Stadium isolated from pretty much everything else? Keep the old one and upgrade it. Build green space, mass transit and parking over Lake Shore Drive. Coming off I55 its dead space. Many cities are already doing it including Chicago. Burnham Harbor has sailboats. Tunnel will need to be built to access it.

[@delgadogarces]

Hell no! No corporate welfare! 2 Billion is chump change!

[@tinnelledwards6895]

I would give that bears stadium to the White Sox and let them build on that land and the Bears go back to arlington at least it would be a lil warmer for the Bears no sense in demo that race track for nothing and its more fresh land to deal with!!! Just because you build a home for the Bears in arlington heights dont mean their not the Chicago Bears its plenty of sports teams or racing events built in nicer places outside of the city i see no problem with that especially knowing that its still close to the city!!! I mean some of these hardcore originalist are just crazy asl!!! Like i said if they are worried about the money going to arlington well let the White Sox renovate the old soldier field!!! The climate would just perfect for baseball season over there on the lake front!!!

[@PHLOBX]

Didn’t the bears just build a new stadium recently? Sorry, not a CHI fan so don’t know all the specifics.

[@chitownmytownofficialonean6067]

No they got a property in Arlington Heights I live next door to it practically but they have not built anything they have only torn it down and if I'm not mistaken taxes are to high so now they are still looking for property to build on.

[@sdsmt99]

​@@chitownmytownofficialonean6067he means they just built a new stadium in 2002.

[@sdsmt99]

Is this the official Fox 32 page? Is this news or an editorial??? I expected to see what the stadium looked like instead I got a nameless individual who claims to be a 55 year season ticket holder and Chicago resident endorsing a stadium. I'm a degenerate horse gambler. Will Fox 32 publish my thoughts on why the hell my beloved Arlington Park was sold AND destroyed?

[@ronavena]

Parking? Simple. Where Soldier Field Park would be, put in underground parking, just like that underneath Millennium Park at the Monroe St. Garage. Alternatively, the City can tear down the old McCormick Place building and put a multilevel parking garage there.

[@sirchi8731]

Good point

[@RGNHomeSolutions]

How do you get all the cars in and out at the same time? Traffic on Lake Shore Drive during events is horrible. No access east because of the lake.

[@jamesvokral4934]

You just added another billion or so to the cost of construction.

[@michaelwallace8740]

Can’t tailgate underground. Makes for a lousy game day experience. Arlington Heights property changes that.

[@BB-bp7vx]

Get a drone

[@richfarfugnuven6308]

Move to Arlington Heights. It makes way more sense...

[@chitownmytownofficialonean6067]

It really does but people are selfish .

[@sonjm6205]

No one from Chicago is going to that boring lil town called Arlington to watch the bears .... bears are staying in Chicago

[@richfarfugnuven6308]

@@sonjm6205 wanna bet? If they build it in Arlington, you don't think all of the suburbanites won't go to games? It would be a lot safer than Chicago. The Bears sold out in Champaign-Urbana, they can't sell out Arlington?

[@chitownmytownofficialonean6067]

@@sonjm6205 You have no idea how fire the surrounding area will be by the time the stadium is built It already has a bar across the street and way more will come shortly.

[@sonjm6205]

@@chitownmytownofficialonean6067 sorry guys but bears ain't going to Arlington nothing exciting out there Chicago has everything more entertainment and better restaurants and bars makes no sense for bears Chicago has been bears home for decades they'll loose alot of die hard fans and money they're staying in Chicago

[@89volvowithlazers]

keep it west of lsd if u ask me

[@jamesvokral4934]

Is this reporter a propagandist or a paid spin artist for the Bears.

[@Mari000]

Yes

[@ord4r857]

It's funny because the Bears will end up moving to Arlington Heights anyway.

[@richfarfugnuven6308]

If they're smart, they will move to AH...

[@chitownmytownofficialonean6067]

I'm right here for it !

[@user-jf4nj3ez2k]

Probably. Friends of the Parks is a very powerful group..they'll do everything they can to make sure it never happens.

[@tinnelledwards6895]

Not a good idea compare to AH no matter what ideas you come up with the best option is still AH!!! ITS A WIN WIN!!!

[@bb-jp7er]

I'm on board.

[@lyndonwhite104]

Bear Down ❤

[@rhdtv2002]

That looks way to small

[@richfarfugnuven6308]

Too* small.

[@TolyTheTolerBear]

Who TF cares? They’re just going to LOSE the majority of the time and keep letting their fans down 🙄🙄🙄

[@davidmotyka2708]

What took so long to want a roof on a cold weather city stadium?

[@user-oc4hg9tg7e]

They cannot build on top of a landmark

[@Chicago-ed1ns]

Brandon Johnson will only help the Bears if they say they are Venezuelan

[@jgotti2042]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@joeshmoe-rl7bk]

.......question is, what will it SOUND like? out in the parking lot: POP POP POP POP POP ....POP.POP......POP POP POP.....

[@techi9]

You forgot: "run all dat shit! Open your phones, gimme dat pin!"

[@user-jf4nj3ez2k]

If its built Poles and Eberflus will mever see the inside of it. Theyll both be long gone, fired by then.

[@johnscharnhorst3432]

Lets go Lou 🐻🔽

[@amahdcole2185]

Thanks lou

[@gqochoa]

❤

[@user-oc4hg9tg7e]

I hope and pray it happens. Go bears

[@techi9]

Billionaires getting the taxpayer's money. Lou you've been a season ticket holder since the late 60s??? You were born in 1964

[@rhdtv2002]

Born into it

[@patpetrillo7342]

Greek ties 😁

[@maureencora1]

Build It, And They Will Come. Field of Dreams Go Chicago Bears.

[@mark11967AD]

Ok so first of all this guy this reporter his name is Lou Canellis. He covered the Bulls as their sideline reporter for Sportschannel during the 90s glory years. And he was awesome. So getting that duly noted but this is such a pro Bears mini documentary almost. Give credit to Lou for all his knowledge and investment of time with the team and the city all these years. But this definitely tilted pro Bears and I think unless he is currently a representative of their team and presented as such this is kind of cheesy and PR to me. Though I hate to criticize Lou because again he was amazing covering the Bulls in the 90s and added a lot. As did Norm Van Lier. But on this I thought the Bears ie the Chicago people are still paying a $500 M bill with interest on current Solider Field renovations. So how about getting that slate wiped clean by the McCaskeys who have made a boatload or make that an aircraft carrier full of money off of Chicago Bears fans. Then we can talk about this new grandiose project.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Bears and white Sox should share a stadium. It can look like three rivers stadium in Pittsburgh, or riverfront stadium in Cincinnati

[@ogbigsco]

Stop being goofy. Its a reason why there is no more 3 rivers and riverfront stadium. And those teams have their own venues 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@rwall3450]

@vicepresidentmikepence889 you about 60 years behind with that concept. Nobody is doing that anymore.

[@doubletbigballz]

those were dumps even when their were new

[@bcranford714]

It’s not the 70s anymore

[@AM74691]

It would probably make more sense for the Chicago Bears to win a Super Bowl before thinking about a BRAND NEW STADIUM!! Then they could pay for it THEMSELVES!!!

[@woodstocknation1961]

Doesn't matter where Bears play, if Ryan Poles doesn't fix the offensive line we will still be crappy and the packers will still own us. drat 🤨

[@redsky8763]

Stay in the city. The Bears will continue to be lousy. The Packers will always own them.

[@joeshmoe-rl7bk]

...opens up Soldier Field to house the thousands of incoming Palestinian refugees in 2025...

[@MW-xm1rc]

No mater what the new football stadium looks like , THE BEARS WILL STILL SUCK!!

[@rhdtv2002]

Let’s just be a little more positive

[@rrmorris67]

why did i have to hear the words taylor swift in this video? Boooooooo

[@user-zq6jn5cy8i]

Yeah!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Jujubeans23]

No one wants to go near downtown Chicago anymore just go to Arlington heights and get it over with

[@mcg1111]

Bears still suck

[@user-jr6rt6ex9e]

this is stupid chicagoans are not about to travel to arlington heights

[@richfarfugnuven6308]

They said the same thing about the Cowboys, who moved further out. If you win(look at the Pat's under Brady), they will come...

[@chitownmytownofficialonean6067]

Why won't they come ? It's more convenient they don't have to drive and can pre game on the train and get let off in the parking lot straight to the front door 🚪 Try doing that at Soldier Field 😂😂 it's a frustrating process just because you live in the city doesn't mean a thing it's a nightmare

[@sdsmt99]

One third of NFL stadiums are outside of downtown, another third of NFL stadiums are outside the city limits of their namesake. So try again.

[@calcio23]

He’s a visionary who built a stadium in Minnesota … and the Vikings still suck. I foresee a similar story arc.

[@deltaillsounds]

👀🏈 might have a roof on new stadium 🏟️ for winter will bring in fans help built other great things

[@youngblakwallstreet4607]

Im a big Chicago bears and Chicago Cubs fan and supporter im here for this

[@chitownmytownofficialonean6067]

I'm ready I just need to know where can I put my smokers at so I can get these beef ribs and briskets served up ! 😊