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Analysis: Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy needs to end this losing streak before it gets out of hand because theres an ideal firing date presented by a mini-bye, and even though the team has no history of in-season firings there is only so much losing one can take.

The Chicago Bears reportedly have signed an agreement to purchase the Arlington Park property in Arlington Heights, putting the storied NFL franchise closer to building the state-of-the-art suburban stadium that founder George Halas first envisioned 46 years ago.

The Chicago Bears confirmed Thursday the organization has submitted a bid to purchase the 326-acre Arlington Park property. It comes 46 years after Bears founder George S. Halas made his first pitch to relocate his team from Soldier Field to Arlington Park. "We welcome the Chicago Bears interest in the Arlington Park site," Arlington Heights Mayor Tom Hayes said Thursday.

Updated 5/15/2021 5:05 PM Legendary Chicago Bears owner George Halas drew rousing applause in 1975 when he spoke of his beloved football team moving from Soldier Field to the suburbs. "I hope and pray that 1977 will find the Bears contending for a title in a new stadium in Arlington Heights," he said to members of the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce.   A new stadium proposed for the Arlington Park site didnt happen then. And it didnt happen 10 years later when Michael McCaskey, Halas gra...

Simply put, Graves wants to see a more level playing field. "If you drill right down to it," Graves said, "the league promises all people who are interested in working with the league an opportunity to a fair, open and competitive process, and were just asking the league to live up to its promise." After 13 years with the Bears, Graves left in 1997 to join the Arizona Cardinals as assistant to the president. He was elevated to vice president of football operations in 2003 and was promoted to ge...

In this March 8, 1984, file photo, New Jersey Generals owner Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Herschel Walker in New York after Walker agreed to a 4-year contract with the USFL football team. A spring football league, done the right way, could work. The United States Football League came up with the most feasible concept back in the 1980s, only to crumble after just three seasons. Dave Pickoff/AP I knew Donald Trump was a con man long before most people. To begin with, I spent a good...

In the 1990s Aurora was making an attempt to get a proposed $285 million, 74,000-seat stadium for the Bears built on 207 acres northeast of Eola Road and the East-West Tollway.

By Mark Koruba My family has had Chicago Bears season tickets since the team was playing football in the ill-fitting(one of the end-zones was too small by quite a bit) Wrigley Field. We have also been frustrated by the team’s play, ownership, management, scouting, drafting, coaching and general ineptitude for the majority of those fifty plus years. All of the aforementioned issues are on grand display this season. Let us start with ownership. Virginia McCaskey knows less about football than m...