re: Bears to request more than $2 billion in public money to fund $4.6 billion stadium.

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I believe there’s been a number of studies that have shown sports stadiums in general are not the economy boom that they are hyped up to be.

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Yeah, a baseball stadium basically has the same economic impact on a city as a mid-sized department store. And that's a sport with 81 home games a year! The economic impact of a football stadium would be even considerably less than that.