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Soldier Field is located on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, and is currently home to the NFL's Chicago Bears. It reopened on September 27, 2003 after a complete rebuild (the second in the stadium's history). Many fans refer to the rebuilt stadium as the New Soldier Field.
Previously it was Soldier Field Tickets the site of the former All-Star Game, an exhibition between the last year's NFL champion (or, in its final years, Super Bowl champion) and a team of collegiate all-star players of the previous season prior to their reporting to the training camps of their new professional teams. This game was eventually discontinued due to the risk of injury to the all-stars in what was essentially a meaningless exhibition, and the lack of Soldier Field Tickets competitiveness of the game, which in its waning years was almost always won by the professional champions.
In its earliest configuration Soldier Field Soldier Field Tickets was capable of seating over 90,000 spectators. Although used as the site for many sporting events and exhibitions, it was not until September 1971 that the Chicago Bears first made it their home. Seating capacity was reduced to 57,000 so that spectators would have a Soldier Field Tickets relatively good view of the field and beginning in 1978 the plank seating was replaced by individual seats with backs and armrests.
Soldier Field originally had a natural grass surface. AstroTurf replaced the grass in 1971 when the Bears moved to the stadium. Grass returned for the 1988 football season.
The field serves as a memorial to American soldiers who Soldier Field Tickets died in wars, hence its name. It was designed in 1919 and completed in the 1920s. It officially opened on October 9, 1924 (the 53rd anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire), as Municipal Grant Park Stadium, changing its name to Soldier Field on November 11, 1925. Its design is modelled on the Greco-Roman architectural tradition, with doric columns rising above the stands. However, after being rebuilt, the modern stands now dwarf the columns. The new stadium seats 61,500 people - 5,444 fewer than the old one.
Mainly thought of as the long-time home of the NFL's Chicago Bears, the 100,000-seat stadium on the shores of Lake Michigan hosted the Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney championship fight in 1927, track Soldier Field Tickets and field competitions and several major college football games, including Army-Navy and Notre Dame-USC.
The stadium also contained a half-mile oval, which was normally used for midget and motorcycle racing. In 1956, NASCAR swung through for its only race at Soldier Field. Twenty-five cars started the Soldier Field Tickets 200-lapper, with Fireball Roberts averaging 61.037 mph to win $850. The racetrack was torn out in 1970.
In 2001 the Chicago Park District, which owns Soldier Field Tickets the structure, faced substantial criticism from the Chicago Tribune when it announced plans to alter the stadium. By the time it was completed, such notable publications as The New York Times ranked the facility as one of the five best new buildings of 2003.
In 1987, Soldier Field was listed in the National Register of Historic Places program managed by the National Park Service. On September 23, 2004, a 10-member federal advisory committee Soldier Field Tickets unanimously recommended that Soldier Field be removed from the National Register and de-listed as a Landmark. The recommendation to de-list was prepared by Carol Ahlgren, architectural historian at the National Park Service's Midwest Regional Office in Omaha, Nebraska. Ms. Ahlgren was quoted in Preservation Online as stating that "If we had let this stand, I believe it would have lowered the standard of National Historic Landmarks throughout the country" Soldier Field Tickets and "If we want to keep the integrity of the program, let alone the landmarks, we really had no other recourse." The stadium lost the Landmark designation on February 17, 2006, primarily due to the Soldier Field Tickets extent of the renovations.
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