From the Special Olympics to ski jumping to Springsteen and the E Street Band, Chicago’s Soldier Field has been the city’s playground on the lake for 100 years.
It all started in 1919, when the South Park Commission hosted a design competition for a new stadium to be built in Grant Park. They selected a plan by architects Holabird and Roche that featured its now iconic colonnades. Construction began in 1922, and the stadium opened on October 9, 1924.
See the stadium and some of the events it hosted over the past 100 years in our latest Google Arts & Culture story.
Credits
Special thanks to the following individuals who made this Google Arts & Culture exhibit possible:
Caroline Hugh
Peter T. Alter
Angela Hoover
Heidi Samuelson
Esther D. Wang
You can find thousands more images of Soldier Field in the Chicago History Museum’s collection at CHM Images.
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