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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Best of the Bears: Stadium development project moves forward in Hammond

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the Best of the Bears, Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote reacted to the Bears announcing their board of directors has voted to advance its stadium development project in Hammond, Indiana; Dan Wiederer of The Athletic joined the Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show to react to the Bears taking a significant step toward moving to Hammond; and Rahimi, Harris and Grote opened the phone lines for Score listeners to sound off on the big news.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We are back with breaking news on Rahimi Harris and Grotie.

0:05.9

We mentioned at the top of the hour, David Hall reporting.

0:09.0

The Bears are expected to announce today their board of directors is voted.

0:12.3

They will be focused on Hammond moving forward as the future site of their stadium.

0:16.2

That according to two legislative sources.

0:18.2

Well, the Bears have now issued a statement.

0:19.9

They sent an email just moments

0:22.6

ago, and this is the entirety of the email. It is this statement. Yesterday, the Chicago Bears

0:28.2

board of directors met and voted to advance our stadium development and project in Hammond, Indiana,

0:34.6

with the exact site to be selected. To be selected, we believe a world-class

0:41.0

stadium project in Hammond will transform the region connecting northwest Indiana to the south

0:47.0

side of Chicago through the loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city.

0:53.1

It will bring Chicago land together and deliver

0:55.8

new opportunities to its residents and businesses. So the exact wording George McCasky and

1:01.5

Kevin Warren used in this statement is to advance our stadium development project with the exact

1:07.7

site to be selected. And Mark, I understand you're doing some reporting on this as well.

1:12.8

Well, there is some stadium stuff that I wanted to reiterate from an Illinois senator.

1:17.5

But I also like in the midst of this little bit of on the field news as well.

1:21.2

The Bears today announced the signing of two selections from the 2026 NFL draft.

1:26.2

Defensive back, Dylan Thineman and offensive

1:28.8

lineman Logan Jones have been signed. The other thing as it pertains to the stadium,

1:33.2

I just think it's interesting. I wanted to reiterate the text that I got from a

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