Make Bears pay for Soldier Field

The city of Chicago owns a $630 million dollar asset they can sell to reduce their debt and get solvent. That asset happens to be Soldier Field, which cost exactly that amount to refurbish. The buyer would be the Bears,

The big savings would be in the reduction of traffic and safety management, which would become the responsibility of the Bears who would own there own stadium. The use of the field would fall to the Bears who could hold events there to recoup their cost.

Seems to be a rather simple solution to the debt problem, and is nothing novel since Daley sold practically everything else the city owns. The key part of the sale is to learn from previous errors and not build more debt.

Tom Rajcan

Wheaton