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Chicago Fire Unveil New Stadium Plans, Opening Date and Expected Cost Detailed

Chicago Fire announced plans for a new soccer-specific stadium set to open in 2028 which would see the team leave Soldier Field.

Sports Illustrated

Chicago Fire announce plans to build 22,000-seat stadium near downtown

The $650m project would be the 22nd soccer-specific stadium in MLS, and it set to anchor an incoming development known as ‘The 78’

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Chicago Fire Appoint Former USMNT Coach Gregg Berhalter As New Manager

With the splashy hire, the MLS side enters a new era in the Windy City.

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Fire hope progress carries them into MLS playoffs

Before owner Joe Mansueto took over, the Fire were lagging behind their peers and can return to the playoffs for the first time since 2017.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fire know winning the best way to lure back fans from record crowd

To truly build off Wednesday and turn many of the night’s customers into fans, postseason bids cannot be a rare occurrence for the Fire.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lionel Messi can boost the Fire, even if he doesn’t play at Soldier Field

Messi joining MLS has been a boon for the league and could lead to looser roster rules that could help the Fire capitalize on Joe Mansueto’s wealth.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fire dismiss coach Ezra Hendrickson

Sporting director Georg Heitz has missed on every designated player he’s signed. His best moves have been selling teenagers to European clubs, he’s shown no ability to build an MLS winner and has the Fire on track to miss the playoffs for a fourth straight year under his watch. Yet…

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Lightfoot touts benefits of CHA land deal with Chicago Fire at groundbreaking for team’s West Side training facility

Money the soccer team pays in rent to the housing authority will go toward its projects. “I’d like to make one point crystal clear: CHA will fulfill our commitment to developing new housing in this area,” said CHA CEO Tracey Scott.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lease signed: Chicago Fire to build $80M training center on Chicago Housing Authority land

Chicago’s next mayor will have to live with the controversial zoning change Mayor Lori Lightfoot muscled through the City Council allowing the Chicago Fire soccer club to build an $80 million training center on CHA land formerly occupied by the CHA’s ABLA Homes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Roosevelt Square applies fresh approach to ‘hallowed ground’ of public housing

The $172 million development phase on the old ABLA Homes site continues a vision of improving a neighborhood by adding mixed-income housing and other amenities.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fire trying to balance selling with winning

The sale Tuesday of striker Jhon Duran to Aston Villa was the Fire’s second eight-figure transaction with an English Premier League club in the last year, but the franchise isn’t selling players off successful teams.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicagoans with disabilities inflamed over Chicago Fire’s West Side deal

The group says turning a 26-acre site on the Near West Side into a soccer training facility will make it harder for those with disabilities to find housing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lopez wants Ethics Board, IG to investigate Fire owner’s $25K contribution to Lightfoot

Ald. Ray Lopez said he believes the contribution from billionaire Joe Mansueto, founder of Morningstar, Inc., “represents a gross & familiar abuse of power and, at minimum, a potential violation” of the city’s ethics ordinance.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lincoln Park’s Belden-Stratford basks in a billionaire’s love

Formerly an apartment hotel, the building is getting a complete makeover backed by a former resident, Chicago business executive Joe Mansueto.

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Joe Mansueto setting up Fire to fail by keeping Georg Heitz and Sebastian Pelzer

Mansueto is bringing back Heitz and Pelzer, a move that could have consequences beyond 2023.

Chicago Sun-Times

Garth Lagerwey an obvious target for Fire

Lagerwey checks all the boxes current sporting director Georg Heitz doesn’t, but signing him could be difficult.

Chicago Sun-Times

City Council approves Chicago Fire’s training center on Near West Side

The 36-11 vote came after a debate over the project’s merits in an area beset by poverty and whether the land could be better used for public housing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fire owner Joe Mansueto must act and replace Georg Heitz

In July, Mansueto said he’d like to bring back Heitz as sporting director. Mansueto needs to reconsider.

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How will MLS’ deal with Apple impact the Fire?

MLS matches will all be in the same spot, but the pact forces the Fire to leave WGN.

Chicago Sun-Times

Speculation and imagination mingle at Humboldt Park project

Developers invest in an industrial site’s turnaround and hope savvy tenants will buy into the vision of The Terminal.

Chicago Sun-Times

Joe Mansueto wants Georg Heitz to stay with Fire, who beat Sounders 1-0

Calling Heitz a “very strong soccer mind,” Mansueto said he’s just starting to talk to the Fire sporting director about his future.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fire owner Joe Mansueto respects Arlo White’s ‘right to work for whomever he wants to work for’

Mansueto spoke with the Sun-Times about White, a planned training facility and the team’s Soldier Field lease.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fire silence on Arlo White speaks volumes

While the Fire haven’t said anything since White caught on with LIV Golf, the well-known announcer voiced reservations about the people funding it back in October.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tony Lincoln Park projects show the rich are all right

Whatever else is happening in the city or with its housing market, demand powers onward in the city’s wealthy districts.

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