the bears moved to soldier field in 2015.
the bears moved to soldier field in 2015.
when did the bears move to soldier field?
2015
soldier field is a stadium that opened in 1924. it has primarily served as the home field of the chicago bears professional football club for over four decades, but it also hosted numerous other events in its more than 90 years of existence (and was not made the home to the chicago bears until 1971, as prior to that season the bears played at wrigley field). the bears' intent was originally to move from wrigley field to northwestern's dyche stadium, but that move was blocked by evanston as well as the big ten conference, so they later took the city of chicago up on their offer to move into soldier field where they have since played. soldier field has hosted a great variety and quantity of events since it opened.
list of events at soldier field
bullet::::- july 3–5, 2015 the grateful dead performed a series of three reunion concerts at soldier field celebrating the band's 50th anniversary. this was a portion of a concert series entitled "", which were their first concerts since their july 1995 concert at soldier field. the three concerts at soldier field were originally to be their only concerts, but due to overwhelming ticket demand the series was expanded to include two dates at levi's stadium in santa clara, california (in the san francisco bay area) performed the weekend prior to the soldier field concerts. the band at the concerts consisted of the surviving grateful dead members bob weir, phil lesh, bill kreutzmann and mickey hart, who had no performed together since the dead's 2009 tour, who were joined by trey anastasio, bruce hornsby and jeff chimenti. the concerts at soldier field were also broadcast with a live simulcast seen by hundreds of thousands on pay-per-view cable television, (for free) on youtube, on large screens at multiple concert venues in the united states, in movie theaters, as well as in various pay per view services. satellite radio service sirius played the concerts, with a slight delay, on their grateful dead channel. the pay-per-view set a new record for a music event with more than 400,000 subscriptions, surpassing a 1999 simulcast by the backstreet boys which drew 160,000 subscriptions. the concerts at soldier field were documented by director martin scorsese for a film. recordings from the concert will be released as a live album on november 20, 2015. there will be three different versions of the recording. each concert was attended by over 70,000 (more than 210,000 overall). the first date drew 70,764, setting a new record for attendance at soldier field post-renovation, a record that was surpassed the next night when 70,844 attended the second concert. among those in attendance were bill murray, george r. r. martin, katy perry and john mayer, al franken, perry farrell, bill walton, jenny lewis, john popper, chloë sevigny, liz phair, david axelrod, and sonic youth's lee ranaldo.
list of events at soldier field