When the news broke that the owners of the Chicago Bears football team purchased a massive piece of property in a suburb 30 miles outside of downtown Chicago, the narrative quickly developed that the Bears could be leaving their historic stadium for the suburbs. Many news outlets say it’s because the owners see more opportunity to make profit—they'll have an easier time with things like sports betting, generational change in ownership, or maybe it’s just time. But we wonder if there are other factors at work here.