The Sun-Times reports that developers have made a $10 billion (with a B!) pitch with a plan to make the former Michael Reese Hospital site the next home of the Bears.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard the former Michael Reese Hospital site floated as an option. Back in 2024, it joined a long list of options that have been presented to the team in its search for a future home. The Bears have since dismissed it as an option, citing safety concerns about it being built over an active rail line and the lot size being too small for what the team was hoping to build. Still, there are folks who want to take one last stab at it. And frankly, I admire their gumption.
More from the Sun-Times story, which includes an anecdote about a sweetener that Capri Investment Group could toss in that certainly grabbed my attention:
To further lure the Bears, Capri and its investment partners said they were willing to purchase the team’s Arlington Heights property it’s “the key impediment to the team staying Downtown and fairly considering Bronzeville,” Primo said.
“There should be absolutely no reasons why the Bears and the NFL should not seriously consider Bronzeville Lakefront as the best site for their new home,” he said during a Thursday press conference.
Buying the Arlington Park site as a means to keep the Bears in the city would be one heckuva power move.
Sep 28, 2026; Chicago, Illinois, USA; General view of fireworks during the pregame ceremony before the game between Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. Mandatory Credit: Patrick Gorski-Imagn ImagesAt this point, the only certainty about the next Bears stadium is that it will have a dome.
Seriously. That the Bears were building a domed stadium was established in September 2022, when then-President Ted Phillips said that the team’s next stadium (at that point, it was going to be Arlington Heights and nowhere else) would not be a retractable-roof building. Since then, Kevin Warren (his replacement) has echoed those sentiments. But other than that, there are more questions than answers when it comes to the Bears’ stadium project.
WHY AREN’T THE BEARS BUILDING A RETRACTABLE-ROOF STADIUM?
We are more than four years removed from the town hall meeting announcing the Bears’ intent to build a new stadium. And yet, the biggest unanswered question that remains to be answered is where it will be built. Go figure.
Suburban Arlington Heights seems like the most logical place, given that the franchise already spent $197 million to purchase the Arlington Park property. Across the border in Hammond, officials in Indiana (both local and statewide) have been making their pitch to be the future home of the Bears. We’ve discussed the possibility of building on the land that is home to Comiskey Park U.S. Cellular Field Guaranteed Rate Field Rate Field Sox Park once the baseball team moves downtown. Now, we find ourselves circling back to a property that has been discussed before.
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On the one hand, I appreciate that there are some who still want to put up a fight to keep the team in Chicago. Nothing captures this city’s spirit like a no-quit attitude when it comes to its football team. But on the other hand, there is a part of me that has grown tired of what feels like endless proposals and renderings. And if the Bears aren’t interested or willing to engage with a proposal, then what is even the point of making it public?
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