Editorial: The Chicago Bears, worth $4 billion, should foot the bill alone for any new stadium – Chicago Sun-Times*

"Sports teams always justify such public investment by claiming their new stadiums will produce all sorts of new benefits for the people of a town. Revenue will flow into municipal budgets! But when it comes to football stadiums that host just 10 or so games a year, studies show that does not happen. Stadiums are not reliable builders of local economies."
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Old Spartan
4 years ago

It can be done privately by the right parties. But after decades of bumbling, the Bears probably can not pull it off.. Look at the success of the United Center. And the City didn’t deliver the modest infrastructure package that was promised to the UC either.

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