{"id":326700,"date":"2025-10-23T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326700\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:42:11","slug":"as-chicago-bears-seek-to-ditch-soldier-field-a-356-million-debt-stays-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326700\/","title":{"rendered":"As Chicago Bears Seek to Ditch Soldier Field, a $356 Million Debt Stays Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">For Chicago, it was bad enough that the Bears are planning to abandon the town they\u2019ve called home for more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballhof.com\/teams\/chicago-bears\/team-history\/\" title=\"Team History\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">century<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">But on top of that, the National Football League team\u2019s move will leave behind an unwanted legacy: $356 million of debt left over from sprucing up Soldier Field, the 101-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soldierfield.com\/stadium-info\/about\" title=\"Soldier Field History\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">stadium<\/a> that the Bears\u2019 owners want to ditch for a new one in the suburbs about 30 miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Chicago, it was bad enough that the Bears are planning to abandon the town they\u2019ve called home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[17945,960,17010,17749,26448,162689,5386,1818,135,9338,62,5331],"class_list":{"0":"post-326700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-bonds","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chief-executive-officer","11":"tag-cities","12":"tag-debt","13":"tag-economic-club-of-chicago-the","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-national-football-league","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tourism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115424011542462365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}