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
Article Comments
Guidelines: Keep it civil and on topic; no profanity, vulgarity, slurs or personal attacks. People who harass others or joke about tragedies will be blocked.
If a comment violates these standards or our terms of service, click the "flag" link in the lower-right corner of the comment box. To find our more, read our FAQ.