GENERAL
Stadium: Soldier Field
425 McFetridge Place, Chicago, IL 60605
Capacity: 61,500
Surface: Grass
Built: 2003 / $660M USD
Head office: Halas Hall at Conway Park, 1000 Football Drive, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Phone: 847-295-6600
Fax:
Website: http://www.chicagobears.com |
Radio flagship: 780 WBBM-AM
Television (regional): CBS
Corporate partners/sponsors: Coca-Cola, Comcast, Motorola, Staples, UAL.
Mascot: Staley Da Bear
Established: 1919
Franchise ancestry: Decatur Staleys 1919-1920
Chicago Staleys 1921
Chicago Bears 1922 to present |
BUSINESS OF WINNING
ATTENDANCE
2011-2012
Home Dates: 8
Home Attendance Average: 62,145
Home Attendance Drawing Capacity: 101%
Home Attendance Total: 497,166
Home Attendance Rank: click here
for 2010-2011 rank
Team Marketing Report:
Average Ticket Cost & Fan Cost Index: click here
2010-'11 Estimated Gate Receipts: $45M USD
CHICAGO MARKET
MARKET SIZE
City Population: 2,842,753
Metropolitan Area Population: 9,157,540 (Chicago-Gary-Kenosha)
Greater Metro Area Population: 9,524,673 (Chicago-Napierville-Joliet)
City size ranking: #3 in US / #3 in NFL
Metro area size ranking: #3 in US / #3 in NFL
Greater Metro area size ranking: #3 in US / #3 in NFL
Source: Nielsen 2008, US Census Bureau 2005 and 2007 |
FRANCHISE FINANCIALS
 OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Owner: Virginia Halas McCaskey (Michael McCaskey, Chair)
Acquisition date/price: 1920 / $100 USD
President: Ted Phillips
General Manager: Jerry Angelo
Head Coach: Lovie Smith
Stadium: Chicago Park District
Concessions: SportService
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MARKET ECONOMICS
Economic Description: Inland port (transportation, finance, industry: high tech and information technology, manufacturing, printing, publishing, colleges and universities, tourism and conventions)
State capital: No (Springfield, Illinois)
Major companies: All State, Zurich North America, Baxter International, Abbott Laboratories, General Electric Health Care Financial Services, Boeing headquarters, HUB International (31 Fortune 500 companies are based in Metro Chicago and a total of 66 in Illinois).
City per capita income (ranking): $20,175 USD (#21 NFL)
Metro area per capita income (ranking): $43,714 USD (#15 NFL)
State per capita income (ranking): $38,409 USD (#12 NFL)
MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS
Race & Ethnicity (City of Chicago): 41.97% White, 36.77% African-American, 4.35% Asian, 17% Other (26.02% Hispanic); African-American, Irish, German, Italian, Polish, English, Greek, Chinese, Mexican, Serbian and Puerto Rican.
Language: Approximately 75% English.
Median Age: 32
Political leadership: Mayor of Chicago – Richard M. Daley (Democrat); Governor of Illinois – Rod Blagojevich (D); U.S. Senators – Richard Durbin (D), Vacant (Democrat Barrack Obama elected President 2008); U.S. Representatives – Bobby Rush (D), Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D), Dan Lipinski (D), Luis V. Guttierez (D), Danny K. Davis (D), Melissa Bean (D), Janice D. Schakovsky (D), Mark Kirk (Republican), Peter Roskam (R), Vacant (Democrat Rahm Emmanuel appointed Chief of Staff for President Barrack Obama).
Source: Team Marketing Report, ESPN.com, Forbes.com and TheSportMarket.biz
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