A Cryptic Message from CHGO Sports on X That Chicago Bears Stadium Will Be in Arlington Heights

CHGO Sports posted a cryptic message on their official X account about the Chicago Bears and Arlington Heights Wednesday evening, February 26, 2025. Whether CHGO Sports intended the message to be cryptic, or not … the message on X is cryptic. A video excerpt of today’s CHGO Sports podcast accompanied the cryptic message …

“Want the Bears to stay in Chicago? Move to Arlington Heights?”

–@CHGO_Sports/X

The cryptic message also serves as the header to their poll, which translated means, “Do you want the Bears to stay in Chicago, or move to Arlington Heights? (results below/end of article).

Along with the cryptic message is an excerpt video of Paul Allen, who is a sports commentator who has called play-by-play for the Minnesota Vikings since 2002. He is the voice of the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network, and is also the voice of horse racing at Canterbury Park in a southwest suburb of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area in Minnesota.

In the video excerpt on CHGO_sports/X, Paul Allen mentions that Chicago Bears Team President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kevin Warren is his best friend in his football domain.

Where was Kevin Warren before the Chicago Bears?
Among many roles in his career, Kevin Warren was Chief Operating Officer of the Minnesota Vikings, overseeing the construction of their new stadium — U.S. Bank Stadium at 401 Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. Construction for the Minnesota Vikings stadium broke ground in December 2013, and the stadium opened in July 2016.

Today, Wednesday, February 26, 2025, the CHGO Sports Podcast Panel asked Voice of Minnesota Vikings sports announcer Paul Allen …
“… with your relationship with Kevin Warren, the Bears trying to go through a stadium deal with Arlington Heights,” what does Paul Allen think?

Paul Allen replied …
“Well you got the right guy leading it. I know, you know, maybe you guys and Bears fans would see it the other way. I haven’t followed it super closely … like to all the details.”

Regarding the closure and destruction of Arlington Park, and the possibility of a Chicago Bears stadium in its place, the voice of the Minnesota Vikings and the voice of horse racing at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota, Paul Allen, also replied …
“Well it was bittersweet for me the way that whole thing went down …. being a race track announcer for three decades, Arlington Park was “the bomb” … I mean Arlington Heights (is) wonderful. Arlington Park is horse racing immortality. So when that was destroyed, and a stadium is gonna go there … OK cool, well that’s business, but then, like, everything halted and stuff, and so I have no idea where it’s going. I just know with Kevin Warren, you can’t play the game or be minutia-detailed any better than him. He is one of my best friends that I’ve ever had in football because he’s honest; and when you’re on the wrong side of Kevin …

A). You don’t wanna be there, but

B). He’s gonna let you know why you’re there, so that you can work your way out of it.

So I love Kevin, and … he’ll get the right deal done eventually.”

While the CHGO Sports podcast panel staged the questioning of Paul Allen in the context of his relationship with Chicago Bears Team President and CEO Kevin Warren, Paul Allen did not affirm or deny that he had any direct communications with Kevin Warren regarding the Chicago Bears building a stadium in Arlington Heights.

Excerpt from today’s CHGO Sports Podcast on CHGO_Sports/X

Yes, the video excerpt on X.com from CHGO Sports used the wrong destruction image of Arlington Park (the destructive fire in 1986, not the demolition that began at the end of May in 2023).

Long version of Paul Allen’s speaking in the podcast CHGO Sports/YouTube …

GAINING AN EDGE: Chicago Bears Defensive Line targets in the NFL Draft | CHGO Bears Podcast (Slide the scrubber forward to 19:34 for the longer version of the Paul Allen comments on the Chicago Bears stadium and Kevin Warren) YouTube Tips ⓘ

A CHGO Sports Poll on X had the following results at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 26, 2025 (DIRECT LINK TO POLL)

Move to Arlington Heights 77.6%

Stay in Chicago 22.4%

OTHER RELATED BUT DUBIOUS X POSTS BELOW ADS …

Also posted Wednesday, February 26, 2025 on X …

POST ON AN ADAM SCHEFTER PARODY PROFILE ON X

Adam Schefter has worked as an NFL insider for ESPN since 2009. Schefter was also an NFL reporter for NFL.com from Aug 2004 – Aug 2009. Schefter became an American sports writer and reporter after graduating from University of Michigan and Northwestern University with degrees in journalism.

There are no recent posts on X regarding the Chicago Bears stadium from the real Adam Schefter’s X timeline — @AdamSchefter/X

REAL ESTATE

Some of these stadium leaks are spreading in the real estate industry, where real estate agents might have insider contacts connected to municipal planners, property inspectors, soil engineers or geotechnical engineers, construction companies, civil engineers and land planners, etc. Consider the two X posts below …

The OSIPOFF GROUP post …

The Osipoff Group is a husband and wife residential real estate business focused on the Will County area. Their official website (paulosipoffhomes.com) refers to a different X account — @OsipoffRealtor / X

In case the post or the account gets deleted, CARDINAL NEWS has listed the Osipoff Group’s listed bullet points for the Chicago Bears Arlington Heights stadium …

“New Bears Stadium

– Agreed upon (will be announced after the draft)

– Will break ground before the end of the year (2025)

– in Arlington Heights (will be slightly south of original plan due to water issue)

– Won’t be a massive seating difference

– Dome NOT retractable roof

– League promised Chicago will host Super Bowl in the stadiums (sic) inaugural season

– Lakefront plans fell through mostly due to Mayor’s incompetence in negotiations

The Steve McEwen post …

Steve McEwen, a Chicago area Real Estate Advisor Luxury Broker with @Properties, visited the former Arlington Park property to produce a short video, and said sources told him the Bears are definitely building a domed stadium, but that the domed stadium will not be in the “northwest quadrant” of the 300+ acre parcel, but instead south of the northwest area to avoid land near a creek that goes through the parcel. That would be the Salt Creek on the west side of the property that flows from Palatine to Rolling Meadows, via the Arlington Park property.

He said the Bears will make the stadium location announcement after the NFL Draft in April.

He spoke of a Super Bowl at the location after the stadium is built … with completion of the stadium taking about five years, and the completion of the entire development mix of hotels, luxury townhomes, commercial buildings, and entertainment taking about seven to ten years.

McEwen said the entire property will be nature-oriented, and might include an outdoor concert venue.

McEwen also said groundbreaking for the new stadium in Arlington Heights will take place before the end of 2025.