{"id":972623,"date":"2026-08-14T03:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/972623\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:57:39","slug":"bears-will-not-change-name-if-team-relocates-to-new-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/972623\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears will not change name if team relocates to new state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new name is not in the cards, but the Chicago Bears are still leaning east as the franchise scours for a new stadium site.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman George H. McCaskey said rumors of renaming the team as the Indiana Bears or including the city of Hammond, Indiana,\u00a0are inaccurate. Because the state of Indiana made a team-friendly offer from the Bears\u2019 perspective, McCaskey and the management team are inching ever closer to taking the team out of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be the Chicago Bears whether we\u2019re in Arlington (Heights, Illinois) or whether we\u2019re in Hammond,\u201d McCaskey said on Thursday at his annual training camp news conference. \u201cOur focus is on Hammond, that\u2019s where we\u2019re advancing our efforts and that\u2019s where the bulk of our time, attention and resources are being devoted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new name is not in the cards, but the Chicago Bears are still leaning east as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":972624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,7,1682,932,6],"class_list":["post-972623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bears","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chicagobears","tag-football","tag-illinois","tag-indiana","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117091856809229235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972623","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=972623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}