CHICAGO, IL — Goodbye, Chicago, hello Hammond: The Board of Directors for the Chicago football team voted Thursday to move forward with plans to build a stadium in Indiana, the team announced Friday.
"Yesterday, the Chicago Bears Board of Directors met and voted to advance our stadium development project in Hammond, Indiana, with the exact site to be selected," Chicago Bears Chairman George McCaskey and CEO Kevin Warren shared in a statement on X.
The statement continued: "We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city. It will bring the Chicagoland together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses."
The Bears have been eyeing land near Wolf Lake in Hammond, where they were drawn after Indiana lawmakers approved a stadium authority in February.