From Wrigley Field to Soldier Field: Where the Chicago Bears have played home games since 1921

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From Wrigley Field to Soldier Field: Where the Chicago Bears have played home games since 1921
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The Chicago Bears primarily have played home games at Wrigley Field and then Soldier Field, but a sprinkling of other venues also have hosted the team.

The Chicago Bears’ history started in Decatur in 1920 when the Staley Starch Company decided to sponsor a football team.

The Bears primarily have played home games at Wrigley Field and then Soldier Field, but a sprinkling of other venues also have hosted the team. Here’s a look back at them — and how the Bears have fared on those turfs.Aerial view of Wrigley Field during the Nov. 17, 1963, Bears vs Packers football game. The Bears played at Wrigley Field, previously known as Cubs Park, for their first five decades in Chicago.

In 1921, the Bears, then known as the Staleys, won the American Professional Football Association title. And it wouldn’t be their last. While at Wrigley, the Bears would win NFL titles in 1932, 1933, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1946 and 1963.. The NFL had been pressuring the Bears to move because seating capacity was less than 50,000 — one of the parameters the league created after the AFL-NFL merger — and because the stadium lacked lights.

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