{"id":751137,"date":"2026-02-14T08:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751137\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:02:17","slug":"portage-unveils-5-billion-halas-harbor-proposal-to-lure-chicago-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751137\/","title":{"rendered":"Portage unveils $5 billion \u2018Halas Harbor\u2019 proposal to lure Chicago Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTAGE, Ind. (WNDU) &#8211; The city of Portage unveiled plans this week for a $5 billion project called \u201cHalas Harbor\u201d designed to attract the Chicago Bears to Northwest Indiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The proposed development would be located 40 miles from Soldier Field and would be privately financed with zero taxpayer burden or debt on the team, according to city officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mayor Austin Bonta said the city has 300 acres of land ready for the Bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis is as real as any other proposed Indiana sites for the Bears,\u201d Bonta said. \u201cI can also tell you that there are already increasing interest for the site now which we respectfully are listening to but ultimately our aim has been and continues to be first and foremost attracting the Bears right here to Halas Harbor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The mayor said Halas Harbor would be more than just a football stadium, but an entertainment venue year-round. The city has released renderings of the proposed development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can learn more about the proposal in Lauren Moss and Joshua Short\u2019s full conversation with Mayor Bonta in the video below:<\/p>\n<p>Lauren and Josh are live with Portage Mayor Austin Bonta as the city makes its public plea to lure in the Chicago Bears with a new stadium plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTAGE, Ind. (WNDU) &#8211; The city of Portage unveiled plans this week for a $5 billion project called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[107695,374,692,391,2493,7,4428,6,92969,16292,8138,21363],"class_list":{"0":"post-751137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-austin-bonta","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-mayor","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-portage","17":"tag-proposal","18":"tag-stadium","19":"tag-wndu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116067942622367050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}