Bronzeville Lakefront
The Bears belong on the lakefront. Their next home is Bronzeville.
A new home for the Chicago Bears on Chicago’s lakefront at the heart of a neighborhood filled with homes, jobs, parks, and places to gather, built with Bronzeville.
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What this is
Bronzeville Lakefront is a proposed housing, cultural and entertainment district on Chicago's Near South Side. It brings together the former Michael Reese Hospital site, Prairie Shores and the McCormick Place rail yards into one connected neighborhood of more than 100 acres.
At its center is a domed, 75,000-seat stadium for the Chicago Bears, just west of Lake Shore Drive. A land bridge and about 30 acres of new parkland reach the lake, with new homes, shops, restaurants, hotels and a youth sports complex around it, steps from McCormick Place and minutes from the Loop.
At its center is a domed, 75,000-seat stadium for the Chicago Bears, just west of Lake Shore Drive. A land bridge and about 30 acres of new parkland reach the lake, with new homes, shops, restaurants, hotels and a youth sports complex around it, steps from McCormick Place and minutes from the Loop.
100+
acres on the lakefront
75,000
seats in a domed stadium, open all year
~30
acres of new parkland reaching the lake
2
new train stations planned at the district's front door
Built with Bronzeville
A home the neighborhood can grow with and be proud of. The development team has
committed to:
committed to:
New homes, same rent
Residents move once, into a new home at the same rent. No one moves until their new home is permitted, financed and under construction.
More homes, not fewer
One and a half new homes for every home affected, including affordable homes, housing for seniors and student housing.
Jobs and community first
Half of construction hours for Chicago
residents, and a community center built first and handed to the neighborhood.
residents, and a community center built first and handed to the neighborhood.
There's no place like home.
For the Bears, for Chicago and for the people of Illinois, it starts right here, in Bronzeville.