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PHOENIX (AP) — The Chicago Bears hope to choose a site for an enclosed stadium in Illinois or Indiana late this spring or early in the summer, team president Kevin Warren said on Wednesday.
Warren told reporters at the NFL meetings in Arizona the Bears are in an “excellent” position as they mull building a new home on land they own in suburban Arlington Heights, Illinois, or in Hammond, Indiana, even though they had hoped to start construction last year.
“Both of the sites are excellent sites,” Warren said.
The storied Bears want to leave historic Soldier Field, where they’ve played for more than half a century. Indiana lawmakers are attempting to lure them from the Windy City with a plan to finance and build a domed stadium in Hammond, about 25 miles from their current home on Lake Michigan’s shore.
The Illinois General Assembly has responded with legislation that would give tax breaks to so-called megaprojects of at least $100 million, a plan that would encompass the Bears’ proposal to build a complex on a 326-acre tract of land they own in Arlington Heights, about the same distance from Soldier Field as Hammond. The team had hoped to start construction on the site of a former horseracing track in 2025...
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