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team from selling tickets for the upcoming season. On On July 17, 1980, the Bears reached a new 20-year lease agreement with the Park
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safety, and required a special ground rule that sliced off that corner of the end zone. The end zone was also shorter than the north, as the south end zone was eight yards, compared to the regulation ten yards. One corner of the north end line ran just inches short of the left field wall. There is a legend that Bears fullback
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who owns the stadium, for three years with two one-year options. The lease also stipulate that the Park
District should upgrade the aging stadium for the sum of $ 700,000, including: installing synthetic turf, updating and move closer the seating, and building new dressing rooms. In 1975 the Public
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Airport Authority. In 1995 Bears President Michael McCaskey reveled that the Bears plan is to build a $ 285 million, 74,000-seat stadium, with $ 185 million to be financed primarily by
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The football field ran north-to-south, i.e. from left field to the foul side of first base. The remodeling of the bleachers made for a very tight fit for the gridiron. In fact, the corner of the south end zone was literally in the visiting baseball team's dugout, which was filled with pads for
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reveled that the Bears were considering playing their 1980 regular season games at the stadium, if they couldn't sign a lease extension with the
Chicago Park District, who owns Soldier Field. In 1998, then-Chicago mayor
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