{"id":686173,"date":"2026-05-22T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:39:13","slug":"bears-say-they-have-exhausted-every-opportunity-to-stay-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686173\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears say they have &#8220;exhausted every opportunity to stay in Chicago&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bears are where we thought they were.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a suggestion that the Bears have been dangling the possibility of building a new stadium in Chicago, the team has issued a clear statement closing the door on remaining in the city where they have played for more than 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chicago Bears <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/bears-reiterate-chicago-stadium-options-have-been-exhausted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">have exhausted every opportunity<\/a> to stay in Chicago, which was our initial goal,\u201d the team said in a statement issued on Thursday, via the Associated Press. \u201cThere is not a viable site in the city. As a result, the only sites under consideration are in Arlington Heights and Hammond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new statement is stronger than the statement the team issued on Wednesday to the Chicago Tribune: \u201cThe team has been clear with the city of Chicago and state leaders there are <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/chicago-isnt-giving-up-its-effort-to-keep-the-bears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">only two viable stadium locations<\/a> under consideration, Arlington Heights and Hammond, and a decision is expected between the two later this spring or early summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indiana is ready to roll. Illinois is working on a package that would help the Bears build a new stadium on property the team owns in Arlington Heights. And the Bears seem to be very intent on building in one of those two locations, and nowhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bears are where we thought they were. Despite a suggestion that the Bears have been dangling the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-686173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}