Five things I was surprised to learn while researching my book “Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City” (University of Chicago Press, $30): 1. While they were building Soldier Field, the South ...

Soldier Field’s longevity is the result of the stadium’s commanding city location, its timeless original architecture, the respect for its long history and its controversial transformation in ...

Five things Liam Ford was surprised to learn while researching his recent book, “Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City”: 1. While they were building Soldier Field, the South Park Commission ...

Crucially, once the Bears moved in, the plan called to revert Soldier Field to its original 1924 scale. The current seating arrangement would be dismantled and more fields would be added.

But in its original form, Soldier Field was never a gray box, a missile silo or a space-age sendup like so many other American stadiums. Soldier Field was built to honor the honorably dead, and it ...

Built in 1924, Soldier Field is the oldest stadium in the NFL. But when it was remodeled at the beginning of the new Millennium, you could say the builders left a little something off the top.

Soldier Field served for many years as the showplace for the Presidio’s ... The temporary barracks and asphalt were removed in 1975 so the field could be restored to its original condition.

A renovation of Soldier Field about 20 years ago essentially consisted of building a new seating bowl structure within the confines of the original 1924 stadium’s outer walls.

The current 21-year-old Soldier Field structure would be torn down and replaced with about 14 acres of green area, athletic fields and park space, with the colonnades from the original Soldier ...

That payment for leaving Soldier Field early could amount to about $86.9 million, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of the team’s 2001 lease with the Chicago Park District, which owns ...