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Chicago’s stadium on the lakefront has hosted a variety of people — football players and circus performers, politicians and civil rights movement activists, observers of religious and cultural milestones, the Rolling Stones and Special Olympics supporters with megaphones — in its almost 100 years.
Here’s a look at many of these significant events at Soldier Field.
(Chicago Tribune, March 18, 1920)
Holabird & Roche architecture firm is chosen to design a U-shaped stadium as a memorial to U.S. soldiers who died in war.
“Chicago is to have the largest open air gathering place in the world — a concrete and marble stadium, to seat 100,000, to cost in the neighborhood of $4,000,000, and to be built by the South park board on the made land directly south of the new Field museum, between the Illinois Central tracks and the lake.”
— Chicago Tribune, Dec. 4, 1919
(Chicago Tribune, Oct. 1, 1922)
Construction begins.
(Chicago Tribune, Sept. 7, 1924)
Thousands of Chicago police officers compete in field events at the stadium, one of many events to dedicate the new facility.
The hammer throw event is held a day earlier “to avoid any possibility of an accident,” the Tribune reports.
The stadium hosts its first football game — between Louisville Male and Austin Community Academy high schools.
(Chicago Tribune, Oct. 10, 1924)
Hosts “Chicago Day,” marking the 53rd anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 under the name Municipal Grant Park Stadium.
(Chicago Tribune, Nov. 23, 1924)
First college football game played at Soldier Field — Notre Dame beats Northwestern, 13-6.
(Chicago Tribune, April 20, 1925)
Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi — who became the first athlete to win five gold medals at a single Olympics in 1924 — dominates the first Loyola Relays held at the stadium.
(Chicago Tribune, Aug. 17, 1925)
About 70,000 people attend the first Chicago Roundup.
Cardinal Mundelein, from left, Father William R. Griffin, and C. G. Guill look over Soldier Field in 1925 preparation for the upcoming 28th International Eucharistic Congress. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
Name changed to Soldier Field on Armistice (now Veterans) Day. Yet, the Tribune decides to call it Soldiers’ Field in its pages.
" ... it is Soldiers’ Field, plural in the hope that America will have more than one when more are needed and will regard more than one when more have been used. It’s Soldiers’ Field now and forever in this space on this newspaper.”
— Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 1925
Cardinal Mundelein walks on the field during the 28th International Eucharistic Congress, which Mundelein hosted, at Soldier Field in June 1926. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
Approximately 300,000 people — 150,000 inside Soldier Field and 150,000 outside the stadium — attend Mass during the International Eucharistic Congress. Chicago is the first city in the United States chosen to host the religious gathering.
(Chicago Tribune, Nov. 11, 1926)
The Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals face each other in the first professional football game played at the stadium, which is also officially dedicated. Soldier Field wouldn’t become the Bears’ home stadium until 1971.
[ The Chicago Bears have called Soldier Field home since 1971 — but they have flirted with leaving the downtown stadium several times since ]
(Chicago Tribune, Nov. 28, 1926)
Navy is awarded the national championship despite its game against Army ending in a 21-21 tie before 110,000 fans at Soldier Field. Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne misses his own team’s game to attend.
“It was a football game that was worthy of the twelve and a half decades of West Point’s annals in war and in sport; worthy of eight decades of Annapolis, where Dewey studied and where John Paul Jones sleeps. A game at once brilliant and stalwart.”
— Chicago Tribune, Nov. 28, 1926
(Chicago Tribune, Dec. 20, 1926)
The Bears play the Green Bay Packers for the first time at Soldier Field. The game ends in a tie.
[ The Chicago Bears have lost to the Green Bay Packers 101 times in their 202 meetings. Here’s how the series has unfolded each decade. ]
Motorcycle policemen escort Col. Lindbergh in his plane as it taxied up to a hangar on Aug. 13, 1927, at Municipal Airport (now called Midway Airport), after flying over Chicago's downtown area, including Soldier Field. Lindy left his plane at the hangar and returned to Soldier Field. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
“Lucky Lindy” Charles Lindbergh touches down in Chicago in his Spirit of St. Louis aircraft to promote commercial air travel several months after his historic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
On Sept. 22, 1927, Jack Dempsey lost to Gene Tunney at Soldier Field but Tunney may have benefited when he was knocked down in what historians describe as the famous "long count." (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
A Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney heavyweight prize fight, known as the “Long Count Fight,” becomes the first boxing match to draw $2.5 million at the gate.
(Chicago Tribune, Aug. 29, 1929)
(Chicago Tribune, Aug. 29, 1929)
The Graf Zeppelin flies over Chicago, including Soldier Field, for 18 minutes as it makes its way to Lakehurst, N.J., ending its 20,000-mile trip around the world in 21 days.
“When the silver dirigible headed out over the lake and drove onward in a burst of speed rays of sunshine shot through the gray clouds, throwing on the air liner’s silver sheen a golden light. To the millions watching, the Zeppelin seemed to be disappearing in a halo.”
— Chicago Tribune, Aug. 29, 1929
(Chicago Tribune, Aug. 24, 1930)
An estimated 150,000 show up for the Chicago Tribune-sponsored Chicagoland Music Festival.
(Chicago Tribune, Oct. 3, 1930)
Soldier Field hosts its first night football game. Oregon defeats Drake, 14-7.
“Night football, viewed in the Oregon-Drake contest at Soldiers’ field Friday, is satisfactory from a spectator’s viewpoint — at least, it is much more satisfactory than The Wake had anticipated. With that statement, however, should go the qualification, if any one wants to attend a football game at night.”
— "In the Wake of the News," Chicago Tribune, Oct. 5, 1930
Soldier Field, Grant Park and the Lakefront in 1931. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
Several hundred performers — including Goliath the sea elephant — arrive to perform as part of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, which becomes a fixture of summer in Soldier Field’s parking lot for decades.
Rear Adm. Walter Crosley, from left, Amelia Earhart and Maj. Gen. Frank Parker salute the flag on the reviewing stand at the George Washington bicentennial military tournament held at Soldier Field on June 24, 1932. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
Amelia Earhart flies over Chicago then receives a medal for her trans-Atlantic flight in 1931 during a show for the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth.
The Chicago World's Fair (Chicago Tribune)
Opening ceremonies for the World’s Fair are held at Soldier Field..
A crowd of 125,000 would end up filling Soldier Field for the Jewish Day pageant "The Romance of a People," in 1933. "Attendance was one of the largest of the entire Exposition, more than 244,000 admissions being recorded," the Tribune wrote of the day's fair attendance. " (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
And estimated 125,000 people attend “The Romance of a People” Jewish pageant. Soldier Field hosts many cultural and religious events — to huge crowds — during its early years.
(Chicago Tribune, April 2, 1934)
The first nondenominational Easter sunrise service is held at Soldier Field, in the rain.
Midwest Auto Racing Association hosts its first car race event at the stadium.
Cover of the program for the second Chicago Tribune All-Star Charity Football Game, which took place on Aug. 29, 1935, at Soldier Field in Chicago. (Pro Football Hall of Fame)
A team of college All-Stars defeats the Chicago Bears, 5-0, in the Chicago College All-Star Game. The event becomes a tradition through 1976.
[ How George Halas’ columns for the Chicago Tribune, a field goal and a charity game helped the Chicago Bears prove their legitimacy in 1935 ]
The first-ever Chicago Ski Tournament held at Soldiers' Field on Feb. 16, 1936. A huge slide was erected on the South end of the lakefront arena. An unemployed road worker from Minnesota, Eugene Wilson, 22, won the tournament with a 68-foot jump. A snowstorm prevented the skiers from making attempts on the steel slide, which was erected over the permanent stands in the south end of the arena. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
A 13-story ski jump — the world’s highest man-made jump at the time — is constructed at Soldier Field for the U.S. Central Ski Association’s annual meet. More than 57,000 people show up to see the 1937 meet.
(Chicago Tribune, Aug. 24, 1938)
Gates are forced open by a crowd of thousands intent upon entering Soldier Field to dance during the “Jitterbug riot.”
“I’ve never seen anything like this in Chicago. I’ve never seen it anywhere. There are a lot of nice boys and girls here, but this thing also has brought out an undesirable element. Some of the things that are happening here tonight could cause real trouble in any other kind of crowd. Thank heavens they seem so cheerful about everything.”
— Capt. Michael Hayes, Chicago police
The adjoining Chicago Park District administration building is completed, enclosing the stadium’s “U” shape.
A war bond rally at Soldier Field features Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Fred Astaire, Harpo Marx and more performers who raise $200 million.
A capacity crowd estimated at 110,000 jammed Soldier Field in Chicago on Oct. 28, 1944, to hear President Roosevelt deliver his first major campaign address to the Midwest. The speakers stand was in the center, above. Chief of ushers Andy Train estimated an additional 150,000 stood outside the field to listen to the speech. (Associated Press)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wartime visit draws more than 100,000 spectators.
President Harry S. Truman waves to the crowds gathered at Soldier Field on April 6, 1946, in Chicago. He circled the field in his car before he made his speech. (Chicago Tribune)
Just three years after a previous visit to Soldier Field, President Harry Truman speaks at the Shriners convention, which was one of the first televised events at Soldier Field.
(Chicago Tribune, April 27, 1951)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, ousted from his Far Eastern command weeks earlier by President Truman, thrills a vast audience with a fighting defense of his stand on Korea.
(Chicago Tribune, Sept. 9, 1954)
An estimated 260,000 people — 180,000 inside Soldier Field and another 80,000 outside — gather for a Mass in tribute to the Virgin Mary.
Alponse Cahue, of Mexico City, attends the opening day of the Pan Am Games at Soldier Field on Sept. 2, 1959. (Chicago Tribune Historical Photo)
Opening ceremonies of the Pan Am Games.
Chicago Bear Johnny Morris (47) goes for three yards with John Roach (33) hot on his trail during the Bears vs Cardinals game held at Soldier Field in 1959. (Steve Lasker / Chicago Tribune)
The Chicago Cardinals play their last home game at Soldier Field. The team moves to St. Louis.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Civil Rights Rally at Soldier Field on June 21, 1964, in Chicago. (James OLeary / Chicago Tribune)
Martin Luther King Jr. is the keynote speaker at the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights held at Soldier Field. The predominantly Black crowd that gathers to hear King speak is fewer people than expected, however, due to rain.
“We must continue to engage in demonstrations, boycotts, and rent strikes and to use all the resources at our disposal. We must go to the ballot box and vote in large numbers. But nonviolence is the most total weapon available to the Negro in his struggle for human dignity."
— Martin Luther King Jr., June 21, 1964
(Chicago Tribune, July 11, 1966)
King returns to deliver another speech at a sweltering Soldier Field, telling the 30,000 attendees, “This day we must decide to fill up the jails of Chicago, if necessary, in order to end slums.” He outlines 14 basic goals of the Chicago Freedom Movement and later in the day posts them to the LaSalle Street entrance of City Hall.
[ Vintage Chicago Tribune: Martin Luther King Jr. leads ‘the first significant freedom movement in the North’ ]
Barbra Streisand performs in the rain, backed by a 35-piece orchestra.
“The arena on the lake front is all wrong for her, as anyone could guess. Sitting in the expensive seats, once could see her face register the play of pain and driving intensity from the front row, but the loudspeakers six feet away blasted your eardrums to pain.”
— Thomas Willis, Chicago Tribune, Aug. 10, 1966
The Chicago Special Olympics, co-sponsored by the Chicago Park District and the Joseph Kennedy Jr. foundation, was held for the first time on July 20, 1968, at Soldier Field in Chicago. The event provided an athletic competition for people with disabilities. (William Yates / Chicago Tribune)
The first Special Olympics is held at Soldier Field. A sculpture named “Eternal Flame of Hope” was placed outside the stadium in 2018, to mark the event’s 50th anniversary.
A kick sails over a mass of Bear defenders to clear the crossbar and give Washington a 3-0 lead at Soldier Field on Nov. 14, 1971. The This was the first season the Bears played home games at Soldier Field. (Ray Gora / Chicago Tribune)
After playing 50 seasons at Wrigley Field, the Bears defeat the Steelers in their first home game at Soldier Field — in the rain. Capacity is cut to 57,000.
With a rock music booking ban in place since fans rioted in July 1970 when Sly and the Family Stone failed to appear for their scheduled concert, Chicago Park District officials book Marvin Gaye for Soldier Field. Only 8,500 fans show up.
The Chicago Sting beat the New York Cosmos, 4-1, in front of 28,000 fans. It’s soccer star Pele’s last match at Soldier Field.
The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger is out front during their show at Soldier Field on July 8, 1978, in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
The weather cooperated beautifully, supplying refreshing breezes and 70-degree temperature under sunny skies for the 75,000 fans at the Rolling Stones concert on July 8, 1978, at Soldier Field. (James Mayo / Chicago Tribune)
The Rolling Stones headline Soldier Field for the first time. The stadium is filled on a steamy summer day with 80,000 fans, with opening acts Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Peter Tosh and Journey, featuring new vocalist Steve Perry. The Stones set list includes most of the songs on the quintet’s latest release, “Some Girls.” Later that night Mick Jagger drops in on a Lefty Dizz set at Kingston Mines. The band also jams with Muddy Waters while in town.
[ The Rolling Stones in Chicago: A timeline of the band's 55-year fascination with the city’s blues ]
A $32-million renovation of the stadium’s north end permanently eliminates some seating and establishes the stadium’s configuration through 2002. Skyboxes and a new scoreboard are added. Capacity is 66,030.
Hoisted onto shoulders, a fan cheers for the rock group Chicago during their appearance on Aug. 14, 1983, at ChicagoFest at Soldier Field. (Chuck Berman / Chicago Tribune)
Hosts ChicagoFest for the last time.
Bruce Springsteen plays Soldier Field on Aug. 9, 1985, during his "Born in the U.S.A." Tour. (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune)
Bruce Springsteen “Born in the U.S.A.” tour stop.
[ Chicago Tribune concert review: Springsteen shows 70,000 who's Boss (Aug. 10, 1985) ]
(Chicago Tribune, March 30, 1988)
The playing surface is changed from artificial turf to natural grass, and more skyboxes are added.
As many as 1 billion TV viewers worldwide are estimated to have seen views of the Chicago skyline during telecasts of the World Cup's opening ceremony at Soldier Field on June 17, 1994. (Eduardo Contreras / Chicago Tribune)
Opening ceremonies of FIFA World Cup with President Bill Clinton in attendance. The Park District spends millions to prep the stadium for the soccer tournament.
The Grateful Dead, with singer-guitarist Jerry Garcia, play Chicago's Soldier Field on July 8, 1995. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
The Grateful Dead’s last concert before Jerry Garcia’s death.
Soldier Field swelters as a crowd of 69,000 men sing and shout during the PromiseKeepers first-ever event in Chicago.
Bob Bradley, coach of the Chicago Fire on July 15, 1998, during the exhibition game against the Pumas from Mexico. (Wes Pope/Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Fire plays its first ever home game at Soldier Field.
(Chicago Tribune, Nov. 5, 1998)
Blair Kamin, Tribune’s architecture critic, suggests Mayor Richard M. Daley act quickly to “shape up the downtown lakefront” — including Soldier Field:
“Wouldn’t it be wiser to look at what Soldier Field and its environs could do for the lakefront 365 days a year, not just during the 10 regular season and exhibition games that the Bears play . . . whether the Bears leave or stay, Soldier Field can be transformed from a stadium in a parking lot to a stadium in a park.”
— Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 5, 1998
(Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1999)
Hosts women’s FIFA World Cup.
Workmen install drainage pipes in the ground at the south end of Soldier Field during preliminary construction around the stadium on Aug. 15, 2001. (Carl Wagner/Chicago Tribune)
XFL Enforcers play first home game — and loses.
Soldier Field is under construction on Dec. 5, 2002. (Jose More/Chicago Tribune)
As the stadium overhaul is more than half finished, the Illinois Supreme Court rules tax-backed bonds can pay for the project. Friends of the Parks and Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois had hoped to force the removal of the new steel-and-glass arena rising within the colonnades of the 1924 stadium Work proceeds on the overhaul project.
Fireworks mark the opening ceremonies at the first game at the newly renovated Soldier Field on Sept. 29, 2003. Fittingly, the Bears played their archrival Green Bay Packers in the first game at the new Soldier Field. (Tribune photo by Jose M. Osorio)
Fireworks shoot out from a newly refurbished Soldier Field as fans celebrate the stadium's reopening Sept. 29, 2003. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune )
The Packers defeat the Bears in the first game played inside the newly renovated Soldier Field. The project cost $611 million and took 20 months to complete.
Brian Urlacher celebrates the Bears stopping the Saints in their NFC Championship at Soldier Field in Chicago on Jan. 21, 2007. (Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)
The 2006–2007 NFC Championship Game granted the Bears their second trip to the Super Bowl, the first in 21 years, with a 39–14 victory over the New Orleans Saints.
Barack Obama shows Hillary Clinton renovations done to Chicago's Soldier Field during a break in an AFL-CIO forum. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
Hosts Democratic Party debate.
Lead singer Bono and Guitarist The Edge of U2 perform during the 360 Tour at Soldier Field on Sept. 12, 2009, in Chicago.
Hosts U2′s “360″ tour.
People dance in the spray of a hose at the Spring Awakening music festival on June 16, 2012, at Soldier Field. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
First Spring Awakening Music Festival.
Notre Dame-Miami game is the first outdoor hockey game in the history of the stadium.
Mark Carlson (in Kane jersey) of Iowa City, Iowa, high-fives his best friend, Rich Honquest, of Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, during the National Anthem at the NHL Stadium Series game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Pittsburgh Penguins at Soldier Field in Chicago on March 1, 2014. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Blackhawks play against the Pittsburgh Penguins as part of the 2014 NHL Stadium Series. The Blackhawks defeated the Penguins 5–1 before a sold-out crowd of 62,921.
(Phil Walter, Getty Images)
Hosts its first international rugby union test match between the United States and New Zealand.
A sea of Chicago Blackhawks fans walk a roped off path following the Blackhawks rally on. June 18, 2015, at Soldier Field in Chicago. (Anthony Souffle / Chicago Tribune)
Thousands of fans in the Soldier Field stands cheer wildly, dancing to team anthem “Chelsea Dagger” and celebrate another Stanley Cup championship for Chicago.
The Grateful Dead return to Soldier Field for the first time since Garcia’s death for three concerts.
Fans watch Kanye West during a "Donda" listening party at Soldier Field on Aug. 26, 2021 in Chicago. The album is named for West's late mother, and West built a replica inside the stadium of the South Side home he shared with her during his boyhood. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Kanye West appears for a listening party of his tenth studio album, “Donda.”
“Tickets — tickets! — for this “experience” (his word), for seats high in the Chicago sky, started at a low, low $185 (including Ticketmaster fleecing fees). That is, tickets to a listening of a new Kanye record, not tickets to a Kanye performance. And yet, it was an experience. A remarkable, frustrating, bonkers experience.”
— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, Aug. 27, 2021
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Sources: Chicago Tribune archives and reporting; Soldier Field; Illinois Sports Facilities Authority; “Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City” by Liam T.A. Ford