An exit from Soldier Field could lead the Bears across state lines. But it could help revive a once thriving area and the team would still be in most fans\u2019 orbit<\/p>\n
You think you\u2019re <\/em>locked out of the housing market? The Chicago Bears have been renting since Warren G Harding was president.<\/p>\n They started out in the NFL as tenants at Wrigley Field, sharing the baseball cathedral with the Cubs for 50 seasons before the league insisted all teams play in a stadium with a capacity of at least 50,000. So in 1971, the Bears decamped to Soldier Field, where they\u2019ve been ever since \u2013 save for a season-long \u201croad trip\u201d in 2002 to the University of Illinois\u2019 Memorial Stadium during renovations. Soldier Field is prime football real estate: neoclassical, on the downtown lakefront, with sweeping views of one of America\u2019s most sumptuous skylines. But the lease terms are crazy<\/a>, the city park district (which owns the stadium) is a borderline slumlord, and the Bears \u2013 star-crossed to play in the league\u2019s oldest and smallest stadium while representing its third-largest market \u2013 have outgrown the place.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An exit from Soldier Field could lead the Bears across state lines. But it could help revive a once thriving area and the team would still be in most fans\u2019 orbit You think you\u2019re locked out of the housing market? The Chicago Bears have been renting since Warren G Harding was president. They started out … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}