Day 120 of the Chicago Bears’ offseason. Our day started with a stadium update from a pair of national reporters that had me coming away feeling that we are close to an end than to a beginning. And, sure, I still feel like the end is still a ways off. However, I think they’re finally making progress on a stadium deal. When this storyline reaches its endpoint, I’m taking myself out for a nice dinner. It’s been exhausting to follow.
More from the Bears stadium saga via CBS Sports NFL insider Jonathan Jones:.@jjones9 has the latest news involving the Chicago Bears new stadium location. pic.twitter.com/RYnhqGSUN7
— NFL on CBS ? (@NFLonCBS) May 19, 2026 At the heart of the 1-minute, 25-second clip is this:“Hammond, Indiana, is not a bluff by Bears President Kevin Warren or by Bears owner George McCaskey. They are very serious and could very well wind up in Indiana. We know the Bears have flirted with Gary a couple of decades ago. Indiana is basically saying we’re going to give you a boatload of money to build your stadium here. Plenty of tax breaks, build it right here. … There’s going to be an update here in a couple of hours from the Bears on their sites. In a month or two, we should know where the Bears will ulitmately be. We’re not going to find that out here, necessarily. We’ll see what the next few weeks bring us.”
The more the Bears kick the can down the road with their deadlines, the more I feel as if is shaping up to be framed by the team as “we gave Illinois as much of a chance as we could, but we’re taking the deal from Indiana.” To be clear, I’m not reporting that this is what the team is doing. However, given what I’ve learned over the years following the Bears and local/state/regional politics, the playbook isn’t a new one and there is a sense of familiarity here.With that being said, there are some apparent red flags regarding the Indiana site:
As the Bears go through the “we’ll leave for Indiana motions,” a report: Chicago Bears’ proposed stadium site in Hammond would be built on giant slag heap, near hazardous waste sites. t.co/UMc7d5Cc3E
— Gregory Royal Pratt (@royalpratt) May 19, 2026More from Tribune reporter Robert McCoppin:
As the mayor of Arlington Heights, Jim Tinaglia leads the charge to build a Chicago Bears stadium there. In his private job as an architect, Tinaglia said he would be very leery of building on the rival proposed site in Hammond, Indiana.
“I would throw up the red caution flags immediately,” he told the Tribune. “I’ve worked on enough sites with gas stations or dry cleaners or some sort of hazardous material to know it contaminates the ground. I would be very concerned about selecting a site like that.”
Tinaglia is not the first to voice concerns about the site near Wolf Lake in Hammond. In the past, area residents fought to get the site cleaned up. The result was a golf course built on top of a mountain of slag — a rocky waste product from steel production — that was capped with bio-solids that are treated human waste.
The location also sits near several hazardous waste sites, across the street from an oil tank storage complex, and in the shadow of the Midwest’s largest oil refinery.
The more this drags on, Pt. 1: The more this drags on, the more I think about how unprepared the Bears were to go on a journey to build a stadium. This team clearly didn’t have the financial support or infrastructure to make what they wanted, and that we’re going on four years of this with minimal progress suggests that this franchise bit off more than it could chew here. At least their continued kicking of the can down the road is giving both Arlington Heights and Hammond time to get their acts together. The more this drags on, Pt. 2: The more this drags on, the more it feels like this whole stadium ordeal is less about giving fans a better experience and more about squeezing every possible dollar out of the paying customer. Again, this isn’t breaking news by any stretch. Watching how the NFL operates with how it is divvying up games and making them less acessible to fans is just another kind of example of what is happening in football circles. Chicago Bears President/CEO Kevin Warren. © Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images While the Bears continue to fumble around with their stadium saga, the Tennessee Titans are on the cusp of hosting the Super Bowl in 2030. The Tennesseean has details on the project, including a timeline for when it could open. A question that keeps rattling around in my mind is if Nashville will enter the Super Bowl rotation or if this is a one-and-done ordeal. One of my big hangups regarding a Bears stadium project is that the forecasted economic impact — which is based on hosting multiple Super Bowls, Final Fours, and events of that nature — won’t live up to the billing because events won’t come around as often as suggested.THE BN BEARS PODCAST IS HERE: Apple | Spotify | YouTube
We’re talking about practice: The Minnesota Vikings announced they will host the Baltimore Ravens for joint sessions ahead of the preseason game the two will play in August. This means that Ravens Offensive Coordinator Declan Doyle gets another look at Vikings Defensive Coordinator Brian Flores’ unit. I hope he passes whatever tricks of the trade he learns to Bears Head Coach Ben Johnson after those practice sessions come to an end. It sounds like legendary broadcaster Al Michaels is excited about broadcasting in the first game at the Buffalo Bills’ new stadium:“This was a game Amazon really pushed for because it would be so cool to open a stadium, and it’s also another Zelig moment for me. In my career at NBC and at Disney, I did the regular season opener in Foxboro [Gillette Stadium]. It was John Madden and I and that was our first game together. We opened up the Linc in Philadelphia. We did the first game in Dallas at Jerry World. I did the first game when they refurbished Soldier Field in Chicago. I did the first regular season game at Levi’s Stadium. And Chris Collinsworth and I opened up SoFi Stadium in 2020, the pandemic year. It was Dallas at the Rams with no fans.”
ESPN’s Rob Demovsky has the backstory of how former NFL kicker Matt Stover discovered Trey Smack, the University of Florida kicker the Green Bay Packers took in the sixth round of the 2026 NFL Draft in hopes that he would put a stop to the team’s kicking carousel.FOLLOW BN BEARS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | Twitter | BlueSky
Chicago Cubs star center field Pete Crow-Armstrong regrets his “poor word choice” in his back-and-forth with a White Sox fan on Sunday. I’m not sure if MLB is going to come down with a fine or suspension for PCA, but this seems like it should be a valuable lesson for young players on how to handle hecklers. A new 2026 NBA Mock Draft is on our radar thanks to our friends at BN Bulls, who have an update now that the NBA scouting combine is in the books. And now that we’ve reached the conference finals portion of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Tab Bamford has a 2026 NHL Mock Draft update. It is a little funny that the Bulls and Blackhawks are picking fourth in their respective drafts and the vibe cannot be more different despite the coincidence of the draft spot.More Bears From Bleacher Nation: Go Ad-Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
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