So far, not much emotion over whether the Bears stay or go

A rendering of a renovated Soldier Field that includes a dome.I’ve been trying to put my finger on why there seems to be so little public emotion surrounding the Bears’ stadium possibilities. Is there excitement? No. Anger? Not much. A shrug or two? That’s about right.

Part of it has to do with the choices. Putting a dome on a mediocre Soldier Field, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot has proposed, doesn’t exactly send the soul into flight. And building a new stadium in Arlington Heights, as the Bears are considering, feels like another Bennigan’s setting up shop in another suburb.

But most of the public listlessness about the stadium situation, I think, has to do with the end goal, which is about…