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USC QB Caleb Williams aims to exceed Texans star C.J. Stroud's rookie season for Bears

Williams also said he hopes to play for the team for 20 seasons and eclipse Tom Brady’s seven championships.

By Jason Lieser

Bears

Former Bears executive Bill Tobin dies at age 83

By Patrick Finley

Cubs

Polling Place: Is it time for the Cubs to pull Kyle Hendricks from the rotation?

By Steve Greenberg

Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams

Bears

Once the Bears land Caleb Williams, the real work — and pressure — begins

By Patrick Finley

Bears

Simone Biles: 'Nothing foul' about comments made by her husband, new Bear Jonathan Owens

By Patrick Finley

Podcast

Halas Intrigue

NFL

Thanks partly to NIL, fewer underclassmen enter NFL Draft

This month’s draft features 58 early entrants, the lowest number of players to enter the draft with college eligibility remaining since 2011.

By Associated Press

Bears

Bears hire Chiefs executive Ted Crews to run public relations ahead of QB Caleb Williams' likely arrival

In their search to find someone who can steer the team through the tremendous amount of attention it’ll be getting, they chose an executive who worked with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.

By Jason Lieser

Bears

QB decision is Bears GM Ryan Poles' moment of truth

After a teardown and promising first steps of the rebuild, Poles’ future still hinges on getting the quarterback right. It’s a daunting task, but with the No. 1 pick and recently acquired playmakers, Poles has opportunities to develop a franchise QB that his predecessors didn’t have.

By Mark Potash

Bears

Mock draft: Bears go for USC QB Caleb Williams first, but who's next?

Sitting at Nos. 1 and 9, Bears general manager Ryan Poles has a huge opportunity next week.

By Jason Lieser

Bears

Bears president Kevin Warren has seen team transform in Year 1, but biggest challenge remains

George McCaskey knew Warren would have a different management style than retiring Bears president/CEO Ted Phillips. Exactly a year into Warren’s tenure — the former Big Ten commissioner started at Halas Hall last April 17 — the chairman has adjusted to it. He considered it his duty to.

By Patrick Finley

Rendering of a proposed new White Sox ballpark at The 78.

Sports

Chicago stadiums, arenas and real estate make for a playground for the wealthy

We all love sports teams, but regular people don’t own the buildings or the land they frolic upon. We just pay homage to the teams — and to the power-laden who own them.

By Rick Telander

Bears

Raiders sign ex-Bears offensive lineman Cody Whitehair

The Bears cut Whitehair in February rather than pay a $13.25 million salary-cap hit.

By Patrick Finley

USC quarterback Caleb Williams looks to pass while under pressure from UCLA’s Keanu Williams.

Bears

Lucky 13: USC QB Caleb Williams, 12 others confirmed to attend NFL Draft in Detroit

The three top receivers in the draft, one of whom the Bears could take ninth, will be there, too.

By Patrick Finley

Bears

Bears make big additions to legal team in continued push for new lakefront stadium

The Bears have hired political veteran Andrea Zopp to serve as a senior adviser on their legal team.

By Sophie Sherry

Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love

NFL

Packers will face the Eagles in Brazil in Friday night season opener

The matchup in Sao Paulo will mark the first time since 1970 that the NFL has played a Friday night game on the season’s opening weekend.

By Associated Press

Bears

Bears GM Ryan Poles should stress quality over quantity in draft

With only four picks, the temptation to parlay No. 9 into additional picks will be tempting. But with Caleb Williams the presumptive No. 1, plus Montez Sweat and Keenan Allen, Poles is assured of a productive draft.

By Mark Potash

Bears

Caleb Williams pushes back against claim he's never overcome adversity

The Bears are expected to pick Williams first overall in the NFL Draft, which begins later this month.

By Patrick Finley

The NFL is considering using a helmet with a shield that would cover a player’s entire face.

Bears

NFL approves more helmets specifically for quarterbacks, linemen

The NFL will feature eight more position-specific helmets in 2024, with the goal of protecting players from impacts most likely to occur at quarterback and offensive and defensive line.

By Patrick Finley

Former Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka (left) speaks at a news conference in Pittsburgh in 2015; Former President Donald Trump (right) speaks at a rally on Tuesday in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Columnists

When Mike Ditka said no to Donald Trump — and Hope Hicks feared she’d hear, ‘You’re fired!’

It was a stunner this week when news hit that former White House aide Hope Hicks may testify as a prosecution witness in former President Donald Trump’s latest trial. It prompted a flashback to a 2016 Sneed column involving a phone call between Trump and Ditka that Hicks thought would cost her her job.

By Michael Sneed

Fran Spielman Show

Bears in a hurry to build domed lakefront stadium, but Friends of the Parks says, 'Not so fast'

Gin Kilgore, acting executive director of Friends of the Parks, is not about to go along with what she called Bears President Kevin Warren’s “Buy now. This deal won’t last” sales pitch.

By Fran Spielman

Bears

Bears put lakefront stadium cards on the table with state agency key to funding deal

Frank Bilecki, executive director of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, said the Bears are eyeing the same portion of the hotel tax the White Sox hope to use to fund a new stadium in the South Loop.

By Fran Spielman

Sports

When voters say 'no' to new stadiums, what do professional sports teams do next?

“The next page in the playbook, if they lose this referendum, would be to threaten to move,” said Brad Humphreys, an economics professor at West Virginia University, who researches sports stadiums.

By Associated Press

Bears

NFL mock draft: Predicting Bears' picks at No. 1 and No. 9

The Bears are zeroing in on what they want to do in the draft.

By Patrick Finley

Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams leads the USC Marching Band after the Trojans beat UCLA 48-45.

Bears

USC quarterback Caleb Williams visits Halas Hall in latest step toward likely union

As has been the case for months, Williams is expected to be the No. 1 overall pick when the Bears draft on April 25.

By Patrick Finley

Bears

Bears great Steve McMichael hospitalized, released

He was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and released Wednesday night.

By Patrick Finley