I'm thrilled to sign Senate Bill 27 to create the framework to build a new world-class stadium in Northwest Indiana. Now let's get this across the goal line. The Bears said in a statement that the team was grateful for Indiana's leadership establishing the framework for a stadium development in Northwest Indiana.
The Chicago Bears have been renting since Warren G Harding was president. They started out in the NFL as tenants at Wrigley Field, sharing the baseball cathedral with the Cubs for 50 seasons before the league insisted all teams play in a stadium with a capacity of at least 50,000. So in 1971, the Bears decamped to Soldier Field, where they've been ever since.