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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Quinn launches drive to prevent sale of corporate naming rights to Soldier Field

A packed Soldier Field for last October’s game between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Arguing that there is “no tasteful way” to attach a corporate name to a “sacred” war memorial, former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is reprising the fight he waged more than 20 years ago to preserve the name Soldier Field.

One day after Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled her $2.2 billion plan to keep the Bears at a domed and renovated Soldier Field, Quinn launched his campaign to deprive the mayor of the only funding source she has revealed so far to bankroll the ambitious project: selling corporate naming rights.

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