It’s been almost a month now since the Chicago Bears came up with a new idea about where they want to play football and where they want us to watch them play. The Bears are planning to build themselves and us another new stadium. Not way, way away in Arlington Heights, but in the city, a dazzling new stadium on what is now an old parking lot just outside the south side of Soldier Field. And not only a stadium, but also a little forest and a big garden designed to attract families and tourists to the lakefront where there will be shops and bars and restaurants and maybe even a fancy hotel. And the best thing about a new stadium will be more seats than the 60,000 in Soldier Field. Enough seats to qualify the Bears to host the Super Bowl. Building a stadium will create hundreds of jobs, boost the economy, and earn for Chicago millions of new dollars in taxes. And an especially exciting thing about a new stadium will be a roof to keep Chicago ice and snow off a new quarterback, a Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Southern California, where he’s been playing football under blue skies and 50°. So, “Bear down, Chicago Bears! Make every play, clear a way to victory!” A stadium with a roof! Yes, yes, a roof! And a future looking pretty good.

Walter Jacobson gives his Perspective: