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Chicago Bears Look to Build New Stadium With Taxpayer Dollars Amid Illinois Financial Struggles, Windy City Crime

The stadium is far from guaranteed.
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Chicago Bears Look to Build New Stadium With Taxpayer Dollars Amid Illinois Financial Struggles, Windy City Crime
A view from Soldier Field looking toward Lake Michigan in Chicago, Ill., on Dec. 18, 2016. Kena Krutsinger/Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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The Chicago Bears fight song calls the storied NFL team “the pride and joy of Illinois.”

But will that fanfare extend to the 104-year-old team’s aspirations to build a new stadium amid the state’s financial struggles and the rising crime statistics in the Windy City?

Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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