A South Side Bears stadium? The minds behind Willis Tower put forward their pitch – NBC Chicago

A South Side Bears stadium? The minds behind Willis Tower put forward their pitch  NBC Chicago

If the Chicago White Sox leave the South Side, could the Chicago Bears take their place? A group of architects is making that very pitch The Chicago Bears are still searching for their new home, but could the team’s quest land them on the city’s South Side? Randy Gyllenhaal takes a look at a new proposal. The Chicago Bears are still searching for their new home, but could the team’s quest land them on the city’s South Side? If the architectural firm behind the Willis Tower, the Burj Khalifa, and countless other remarkable buildings has their way, then that answer could be yes. As of right now, the Bears say they’re still focused on building a stadium in northwest Indiana, but Illinois remains in the game, as lawmakers in Springfield are expected to potentially take up a bill to encourage the team to stay in the Land of Lincoln.

While the assumption has been that the Bears would build a stadium in Arlington Heights on land they purchased for the purpose, there have been pitches made to encourage the team to build a stadium in Chicago instead, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has put forward one such vision for a place familiar to the city’s sports fans. Their stadium vision would unfold in the Bridgeport neighborhood, where