I don’t really dabble in the Bears stadium coverage. Luis does a terrific job of keeping everyone in the know, and quite frankly, I don’t have a dog in the race when it comes to where it’s built, as I’m not an Illinois resident anymore. But I was, for the beginning of the process, and I’ve been writing about the team here since the journey began. And I was at the Arlington Heights town hall in 2022 with Luis, where we joked that we wouldn’t see a new Bears stadium until 2031.
Well, that joke is becoming a reality, and I couldn’t help but find some ironic humor in Nashville being awarded a Super Bowl this morning at the soon-to-be-completed new Nissan Stadium.
The NFL announced Monday that Nashville will host Super Bowl LXIV in 2030 at the new Nissan Stadium, a building that broke ground in February 2024, began taking shape in 2025, and is scheduled for completion in February 2027. From renderings to Super Bowl host in roughly eight years.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Bears are still deciding what state their stadium will be in.
Bears and Titans Stadium Comparison
Let’s do a proper timeline comparison, because it really is something. The Bears put a purchase agreement on the 326-acre Arlington Park site in September 2021. They finalized the $197.2 million sale from Churchill Downs in February 2023. They held their first public information meeting in Arlington Heights in September 2022 to discuss initial designs. The Titans released their first stadium renderings in October 2022, a month after the Bears were already in a room with the public, talking through plans for their new building.
Same starting line. Wildly different races.
The Titans broke ground in February 2024, topped out the steel in November 2025, are on pace for completion in February 2027, and just landed a Super Bowl. The Bears, in that same stretch, have ping-ponged between Arlington Heights, a lakefront dome in Chicago, the old Michael Reese Hospital site in Bronzeville, and, most recently, Hammond, Indiana. And as of this week, they still consider Arlington Heights and Hammond their only two viable options, with a decision expected sometime in late spring or early summer.
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The Bears submitted traffic and financial studies for the Arlington Heights site as recently as March 2025, announced Arlington Heights as their preferred site in September 2025, then watched progress stall in November when state infrastructure funding of $826 million didn’t materialize and a property tax freeze hit a snag. That opened the door for Indiana to swoop in with an aggressive offer.
Hammond would let the Bears keep all event revenue, pay no rent for at least 30 years, and buy the stadium back for a dollar once 40-year bonds are paid off. The Illinois House has since passed a megaproject bill that would give the Bears property-tax certainty in Arlington Heights, but it still needs Senate approval, and the clock is ticking as the legislative session is set to end at the end of May.
Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams enters Soldier Field. © David Banks-Imagn ImagesTo be fair to the Bears, stadium development in the Chicago market involves a level of political complexity that Nashville simply doesn’t have to navigate. The Titans worked with one city, one mayor, one governor, and a Metro Council that ultimately approved the deal by a 26-12 vote. The Bears have been playing three-dimensional chess involving the City of Chicago, the Village of Arlington Heights, Cook County property tax assessors, the Illinois General Assembly, the Governor’s office, a neighboring state’s legislature, and a Chicago mayor who keeps insisting the lakefront option isn’t dead even when everyone else has moved on. It’s a lot.
But still. The new Nissan Stadium is a 60,000-seat enclosed venue projected to cost $2.1 billion, and it is going up right now, on schedule, on Nashville’s East Bank. The Bears own 326 acres of land in Arlington Heights that they’re currently paying $3.6 million a year in property taxes on, all of it a vacant lot. Construction costs, according to Bears President Kevin Warren, are rising by an estimated $150 million annually as the decision drags on.
The Titans went from renderings to Super Bowl host. Meanwhile, the Bears are at yet another NFL owners’ meeting this week, briefing the other 31 teams on which of their two remaining options they still haven’t chosen.
Somewhere in Nashville, there’s a lesson in all of this.
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