Overview

• New Manica renderings show a fixed-roof, roughly 60,000-seat stadium on the Bears’ 326-acre Arlington Heights site with a surrounding entertainment district.
• The club says it will privately fund the stadium at about $2 billion as part of a mixed-use project topping $5 billion, while requesting $855 million in public infrastructure for roads, sewers and Metra changes.
• Arlington Heights’ review projects roughly $15 million in new annual local tax revenue and outlines 1,150 housing units, two hotels, 300,000 square feet of retail and 200,000 square feet of offices.
• Gov. J.B. Pritzker signals openness to infrastructure support but rejects open-ended subsidies and points to roughly $534 million in outstanding Soldier Field debt, with any bill needing three-fifths majorities in the fall veto session.
• Team-commissioned analyses forecast tens of thousands of construction jobs and 9,000 permanent jobs, which independent economists dispute, as the Bears cite monthly cost escalation of about $10–12 million and a Super Bowl bid goal as soon as 2031.