Chicago's Veterans Day Ceremony To Be Held in Soldier Field Today

Mayor Lightfoot will be at Chicago's Veterans Day ceremony at Chicago's monument to our veterans, Soldier Field by the lakefront, weather permitting as we are having snow and blustery winds.

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About Chicago's Soldier Field

From Wikipedia.

On Chicago's Near South Side.  Capacity for football 61,500, the third smallest in the NFL.  Home field of the Chicago Bears, who moved there in 1971  from Wrigley Field.    It is now the second-oldest stadium in the NFL since the Los Angeles Rams moved to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum which was built a year before Soldier Field.

Designed in 1919 and opened in 1924.  Originally called Municipal Grant Park Stadium.  The name was changed to Soldier Field on November 11, 1925, as a memorial to U.S. soldiers who had died in combat.

Its formal dedication as Soldier Field was held on November 27, 1926, for the 29th playing of the annual Army-Navy game.

A Well-Deserved Honor for Out Veterans.