Home of the Chicago Bears NFL team and one of the most architecturally controversial renovations in American sports — a 1924 neoclassical colonnade surrounding a 2003 modern steel stadium bowl that architectural critics consistently describe as a badly designed intervention. The resulting structure is simultaneously an interesting architectural problem and a functional 61,000-seat stadium.
Concerts, soccer matches, and college football games use the stadium alongside Bears games. The stadium is on the National Register of Historic Places despite its disputed renovation. The area around the stadium, between the Museum Campus and the lakefront, is worth walking for the juxtaposition of the classical colonnade with the modern steel insert. L Red Line to Roosevelt, then walk south.