(670 The Score) A mayoral committee is set to recommend that the city explore the feasibility of constructing a dome atop Soldier Field, Chicago Crain’s Business reported Tuesday night.

The move would be part of the city’s hope to entice the Bears to remain at Soldier Field as the organization has taken serious steps toward moving to northwest Arlington Heights. The Bears signed a purchase sale agreement with Churchill Downs Incorporated last September to acquire 326-acre Arlington Park. While nothing is finalized on that front, the Bears continue to explore the potential of the property and the possibility of building their own state-of-the-art stadium there.

Putting a dome over Soldier Field would almost certainly require a taxpayer subsidy, said a draft of a report that Chicago Crain’s Business obtained. That cost to taxpayers has early estimates of $400 million to $1.5 billion, Crain’s Business reported.

The city panel has also proposed other upgrades at Soldier Field, such as rebuilding parts of the stadium, Crain's Business reported.

The Bears haven’t discussed a dome or other upgrades at Soldier Field with the mayor’s office, a team spokesman told Crain’s Business. The organization remains focused on continuing to explore and move forward with the Arlington Park property.

Closing on the Arlington Park property is expected to take until the end of 2022 or into early 2023, the Bears previously said. In January, chairman George McCaskey shed further light on that topic.

“The best way to explain it is anybody who has bought a house or a lot to build a house, there’s a time between when the property is under contract and closing,” McCaskey said. “And during that time, there are things that need to done in terms of due diligence – making sure that there is a clear title to the house or lot. If it’s a lot, determining whether it’s a build-able lot and so forth. A lot of regulations that need to be checked out. Well, on a property of this size, that time between contract and closing is vastly expanded. There’s a lot of due diligence that needs to be performed before we can before we can close.”

The Bears are under contract to lease Soldier Field from the Chicago Park District through 2033, but it’s an agreement that could be broken with a penalty. The Bears’ penalty for breaking the lease would start at $84 million in 2026, the Chicago Tribune has reported.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

The Bears’ penalty for breaking the lease would start at $84 million in 2026, the Chicago Tribune has reported.

Seems like it took a long time to "recommend" a study. This sounds like they know they are gone and want to be able to say "We tried. We did a study".

Just tear the abomination down and fuck the McCaskey family team. Thankfully this study is just pr.

Just tear the abomination down and fuck the McCaskey family team.

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

$84 million may not be significant in the context of the money we're talking about here. For the record, I believe that if the Bears back out of the deal with CDI at this point it will cost them $25 million. Again, I'm not sure how much of a commitment $25 million really is.

Why are the Bears the bad guys in this?

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

yeah, whenever they drafted that penalty clause, they should've x5'd it, if they really wanted a chance
at it keeping the Bears at Soldier Field. $84 mil will be a single season starting QB salary in 2026. Not nothing, but not anything that's going to keep the Bears in place.

1. Building the Spaceship on the Parthenon
2. Forcing fans to re-buy PSLs for the new stadium
3. General douchebaggery

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

They were pretty limited on what they could do with Soldier Field. That's one of the reasons for this move. Too bad for the fans but that's the PSL game. I would hope they would give them some sort of relief for loyalty.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

You leave Aunt Ginny alone Brick.

in a more logical spot besides the fact that it is the Chicago suburbs and not the city of Chicago

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

How is that dome in New Orleans holding up?

Dunno, hosting Super Bowls, National Championships and a World Champion gets better than a big game of Leo vs. Fenwick??? Or whoever in the hell the children were.

The stadium is ugly, out of date, and a pain in the butt walking a mile away to park. If they move they will have top of the line everything. It's a no brainer.