{"id":919668,"date":"2026-07-14T01:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/chicago-mayor-continues-to-believe-bears-will-stay-put\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:17:21","slug":"chicago-mayor-continues-to-believe-bears-will-stay-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/chicago-mayor-continues-to-believe-bears-will-stay-put\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago mayor continues to believe Bears will stay put"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"Page-content\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div data-grid=\"span:6 md:span:12 lg:span:19 hk:span:19\" data-grid-container>\n<p>                        <bsp-page-byline><br \/>\n        <span>\u00a0<svg><use xlink:href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/#dot\" \/><\/svg>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Published\u00a0June 2, 2026 07:35 PM<\/p>\n<p><\/bsp-page-byline><\/p><\/div>\n<div data-grid=\"span:6 md:span:12 lg:span:14 hk:span:12\" data-module data-grid-container>\n<p>The Bears supposedly have narrowed their focus for the site of a new stadium to Arlington Heights and Hammond, Indiana. Chicago continues to believe it\u2019s in play for the new domed stadium the team covets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no plan in Hammond,\u201d Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday, via the <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i>. \u201cThere\u2019s none of that in the suburbs. We are already <span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bears-stadium\/2026\/06\/02\/brandon-johnson-bears-chicago-stadium-arlington-heights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">further along than any other site<\/a><\/span> that might even be considered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also made a somewhat stunning claim that Chicago and the Bears are quietly moving toward an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only did we have a publicly owned stadium that expanded green space, we were moving forward with conversations around the terms of an agreement,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThat\u2019s been ongoing, and the hope is that Springfield, after what they\u2019ve done in this last session, that Springfield engages with the Bears, with the city and all stakeholders collectively, to come up with a . . . plan that shows the viability of what we\u2019ve already put forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is a firm believer in the viability of Chicago as the location for the team\u2019s new stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]here\u2019s no comparison,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThere\u2019s no traffic study in Arlington Heights. There\u2019s no environmental study in Hammond. There are no terms of agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although a dome would remove the elements from the equation for Bears games, it seems to be a given that the new stadium will have a roof. Regardless, the Bears belong in Chicago. Here\u2019s hoping that\u2019s how this saga ends.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwFBVV95cUxQcjZRT3FSMmQwbWxlenBXRVhYSTZzaDlFZU1VSGlLRE5VVld0LXFoVXBjaGUtaGZoOUc1MTFselhTMWNwSEpHa01BU3daMExBREtOWXA2ckxWWGlzd0JKVDl0WnJ5Q1BBUVdQUmhQVGRxQW05UEJZc21qVThRWE9qUzRzNzRMSXJCdU1NZUpBQlJDSlluRGVVSDVidHdqcEwtcFJsNktaY3o3OE1kY2UwUVE2UHpRRnM?oc=5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Published\u00a0June 2, 2026 07:35 PM The Bears supposedly have narrowed their focus for the site of a new stadium to Arlington Heights and Hammond, Indiana. Chicago continues to believe it\u2019s in play for the new domed stadium the team covets. \u201cThere\u2019s no plan in Hammond,\u201d Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday, via the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[812,24761],"tags":[6724,6030],"class_list":["post-919668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","category-mayor","tag-chicago","tag-mayor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}