If the Bears stadium were to be plopped down on our lakefront, it would be very unfortunate. Politics as usual in Chicago and Illinois.
| Chicago TribuneMy memory may be wrong, but I recall that George Lucas and Mellody Hobson wanted to fund thecost of a museum on our lakefront where the Bears now want to build. Absolutely no cost to taxpayers. The group Friends of the Parks objected to Lucas’ offer. Perhaps rightly so. But the museum and vast art collection would have been available to Chicagoans and visitors year-round. Not for eight to 10 football games and some occasional concerts.
A nice wish, but I’m getting off point. Chicago’s mayor, the Illinois governor, Bears owner the McCaskey family and Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf are missing something. There is a chance to do something really unprecedented. Put a pair of stadiums next to each other — not one stadium to serve two sports, which has not worked in the past, but two stadiums complementing the other. It would be a magnificent achievement.
Do the people in their offices in Guaranteed Rate Field, Halas Hall, City Hall and Springfield want to do a second-class job? An expensive second-class job? Or something great?An artist’s rendering showing a plan for an enclosed stadium with open space access to the lakefront was released by the Chicago Bears on April 24, 2024.
I read that the full cost of the requested $900 million in bonds is really $5 billion over 40 years. Haven’t we been misled too many times by our elected officials to even consider approval or disapproval without every single item of the deal being set in stone? The dollars are too great to leave unknowns for future determination.
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