We continue to crawl our way toward substantive news regarding the Chicago Bears’ new stadium.
The Chicago Tribune’s Brad Biggs reports the Bears are set to meet with the NFL’s stadium committee for an update on where things stand regarding the team’s journey to build a new football home in Hammond (Ind.) or suburban Arlington Heights.
What is the point of getting together with this committee? Biggs explains:
The meeting will be held virtually, the source said, with the committee aiming to get the latest information from team officials. Bears Chairman George McCaskey is a member of the committee, which is chaired by Minnesota Vikings owner Mark Wilf and also includes owners Art Rooney II (Pittsburgh Steelers), Jed York (San Francisco 49ers), Amy Adams Strunk (Tennessee Titans), Stephen Davis (Dallas Cowboys) and high-ranking executives Sashi Brown (Baltimore Ravens) and Kevin Demoff (Los Angeles Rams).
The committee’s role is ultimately to make recommendations to Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league as a whole when it comes to stadium construction, financing and renovations.
This committee is an interesting collection of NFL owners. That it includes three owners whose teams (Rams, Niners, Cowboys, Vikings) have highly regarded stadiums that were built recently, and one team owner (Titans) whose stadium project is in the process of getting put together, isn’t lost on me. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that room when the meeting takes place after the dust settles on the 2026 NFL Draft.
Soldier Field before a preseason game in August 2022 | Photo credit: Luis C. MedinaBack in March, Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren provided an update in which he expressed optimism that the team would know where its next stadium will be built sometime late in the spring or possibly early in the summer.
“We don’t have a set deadline,” Warren said. “but I am confident that sometime this spring-slash-summer we’ll know. I mean, we have to know. Because we would have completed the due diligence in Indiana and we’ll see what happens in Illinois. Fortunately, the good thing about it is both of those sites are great locations because our focus is on our fans.”
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It is worth pointing out that this timeline conveniently allows the state of Illinois time to iron out a plan before the end of this legislative session, which closes up shop at the end of May. Bears Chairman George McCaskey and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell have also recently weighed in on the topic in a way that makes me think we will get some meaningful movement here in the near future. And while I don’t think we’ll make it to a point where the league can vote on a Bears stadium project during the spring owners meetings (May 19-20) in Florida, it feels like we are inching our way toward a finalized direction. Stay tuned.
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