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New Bears lakefront stadium could come with hotel, sports museum — and $1B campus revamp

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The area immediately south of Soldier Field includes a parking garage (center) and surface lot (lower left). The Bears are looking at that land as the potential site of a new lakefront domed stadium.

The Bears’ drive for a downtown domed stadium could include a new sports museum, a pedestrian bridge to Northerly Island and a lakefront hotel — along with a public infrastructure price tag of at least $1 billion to help bring more people to the Museum Campus.

That doesn’t include the financial help the team would need from lawmakers to issue or extend state bonds to build the stadium.