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Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Bears will end up where they started: at renovated Soldier Field

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who has been barred until now from talking with the Chicago Bears about staying at Soldier Field, sees an avenue to communicate with the team.

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Chicago Bears finalize deal to buy Arlington Heights site for a new stadium, but issues remain before ground is broken

The Chicago Bears embarked on a new era Wednesday with the purchase of a site in Arlington Heights where the team hopes to build a new enclosed stadium with a massive entertainment and residential development.

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Bears close deal for Arlington Heights site, Lightfoot targets Johnson and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Chicago Bears buy Arlington Heights property for possible stadium

The team said it has completed its purchase of the 326-acre site for $197.2 million as it continues negotiations for state and local tax subsidies.

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Building a suburban dome worked in Phoenix area — but would it for Bears?

It sounds a lot like what the Bears want to do in Arlington Heights, doesn’t it?

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POLL: Bear down at Soldier Field, Chicagoans tell team — but don’t ask us to bear the cost

More than half of the 625 Chicagoans who took part in the telephone survey said they don’t want to see the team ditch its iconic lakefront colonnades for a new stadium in Arlington Heights.

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Brian Urlacher pushes back against proposed Bears dome in Arlington Heights

“We’re an outside team,” he said. “Our fans like it. The teams that come play us don’t like it.”

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Bears, business group push to make Arlington Heights subsidy plan more than just X’s and O’s on a blackboard

No legislation has been filed and no sponsors have been named for a measure that would create a new class of tax incentive that would allow the Bears to pay to Arlington Heights a negotiated sum for the property taxes on the 326-acre site of the old Arlington International Racecourse.

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‘We nailed it’: Easy to see what Bears CEO Kevin Warren envisions in Arlington Heights stadium

Warren plans to begin official team business in April and said he expects to have more concrete details on the stadium plans by July.

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Bears must leave grotesque Soldier Field behind, get fresh start in Arlington Heights

A new stadium with space, with modern amenities, with a structure that looks toward the 22nd century, not back to the 19th, might help them win a few games, too.

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As woeful season ends for Chicago Bears, clock is ticking on team’s potential move to Arlington Heights

With the Chicago Bears’ season mercifully ending Sunday in a 29-13 loss to Minnesota, focus turns to the prospects for building a new stadium in Arlington Heights.

Chicago Tribune

A flag on the play: Latest Soldier Field plan is a false start on stadium’s future

The proposal doesn’t solve the Bears’ problems with Soldier Field: The team can build bigger in Arlington Heights — and can own and profit from whatever it builds there.

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Stadium developer advising Lightfoot makes a case for domed Soldier Field with Bears anchoring a new commercial zone

Bob Dunn, president of Landmark Development and an adviser to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration, says the plan would benefit the Bears — if team would go for it.

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8 New Year’s resolutions for the Bears in 2023

The future looks bright for the Bears heading into 2023. Here are our resolutions for the team heading into the new year:

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Man dies after being trapped in a trench in front of Buffalo Grove home

Nikodem Zaremba, 27, was taken to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, where he died, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

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Metra train strikes car in Arlington Heights

The driver of the car was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Pedestrian struck by Metra UP Northwest train in Arlington Heights

The incident happened before 6:30 a.m. near the railroad crossing at Ridge and Northwest Highway.

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Arlington Heights OKs agreement to move forward with new Bears stadium

CHICAGO — Arlington Heights trustees Monday kicked off a new phase of negotiations with the Chicago Bears by approving a pre-development agreement with the football club to guide a possible redevelopment of Arlington International Racecourse.

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U.S. Senate forum: Duckworth, Salvi find rare common ground — but it’s in Arlington Heights for Bears stadium

In the forum hosted by the Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ and WTTW, Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Republican challenger Kathy Salvi disagreed on abortion, guns and a host of issues, but both said they support the Chicago Bears moving from Soldier Field to Arlington Heights.

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Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll: Voters all over the field on Bears’ Arlington play — but almost half would sack any taxpayer dollar request

The survey underscores the difficulty the team faces in lining up support for its sweeping proposal to transform the shuttered Arlington International Racecourse into a stadium campus accompanied by a scores of new restaurants, businesses and residential buildings. “Why should the taxpayers fund…

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Chicago suburb's board rejects petition to ban ‘corporate welfare’ for Chicago Bears stadium development

CHICAGO — The Arlington Heights Village Board on Monday unanimously rejected a proposed referendum to prohibit public subsidies for a proposed Chicago Bears stadium development or any other private enterprise.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dear Arlington Heights: There’s a good chance the Bears will have their hand out in 20 years

The lifespan of stadiums is shrinking, and just because the team isn’t asking for tax help now doesn’t mean it won’t next time.

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Bears fans, business owners have mixed feelings about potential move to suburbs

As the Bears faithful hung out before the team’s rain-drenched opening win on Sunday, the specter of a potential move to Arlington Heights loomed like the storm clouds over Soldier Field.

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Bears move toward Arlington Heights stadium with ‘no Plan B’

Anything other than a new stadium in the suburbs is off the table at the moment, including renovations to Soldier Field.

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Bears wrong to expect taxpayers to fund any part of Arlington Heights stadium plan

Given today’s economic climate and the generous windfall the team would reap if the venture is successful, taxpayers shouldn’t fund any portion of the Bears move. Shame on them for even asking.

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