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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

The Bears messed up Soldier Field. Why give them another chance to mess up a stadium?

Solider Field, home of the Chicago Bears. (Scott Stewart/Sun-Times)

I appreciate most of the Sun-Times’ coverage of City Hall and on how Mayor Brandon Johnson might deal with the Bears.

But in the stories I’ve seen about the Bears’ push to go to Arlington Heights, I notice you dutifully recite the team’s complaints about Soldier Field — such as it is the lowest-capacity stadium in the NFL, can’t be redesigned to increase seating nor to give them gambling amenities like the newest multi-billion-dollar NFL stadiums, and was obsolete before it was finished.

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