The Chicago Bears seemed to shift at least some of their attention for a new stadium back to the suburbs, with president Kevin Warren saying Wednesday the team's focus is split between a tract of land it owns in Arlington Heights and the Chicago lakefront.

The focus now is both downtown and Arlington Heights,” Warren said at The Breakers, the site of the league’s annual meetings this week. Warren said that the “next three-to-six months” will be critically important for the Bears’ stadium project.

Tinaglia said he supports a new Bears stadium in Arlington Heights, but the franchise and the village need to come to an agreement on common goals.

Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren confirmed at the NFL owners meetings that the team no longer has a singular focus on building its new stadium downtown.

The Chicago Bears have been focusing on building a new stadium in downtown Chicago, but Arlington Heights is once again heavily involved in the conversation.

After a year of talk about building a new stadium on the museum campus downtown, the Bears are shifting focus back to Arlington Heights.

Per ESPN's Courtney Cronin, Bears team president and CEO Kevin Warren said at the NFL annual meeting on Wednesday that the franchise is expanding its options to include Arlington Heights, Illinois, where it owns the 326-acre property that was the previous home of the Arlington International Racecourse.

Just over a year after the Bears declared its goal to build a stadium south of the current site of Soldier Field on the lakefront in Chicago, president Kevin Warren said the team is expanding its options to include Arlington Heights,