Chicago Bears want taxpayers to help pay for new domed lakefront stadium, but experts say city unlikely to get revenue from it [Video]

CHICAGO (WLS) — Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium is home to the Rams and the Chargers. It’s a privately owned, state-of-the-art indoor/outdoor sports and entertainment complex that cost between $5 billion and $6 billion to build, but not one dime of taxpayers’ money was used.

On the other hand, Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium is owned by the public and taxpayers footed 40% of the bill to build it.

That public-private partnership, with taxpayers kicking in on the cost, is the most typical arrangement, experts say, and a combination of public and private funding is what the Chicago Bears are requesting in their pitch to replace Soldier Field with a modern domed stadium on the city’s lakefront.

“There are significant benefits to building a dome stadium in a city like Chicago,” said Marc Ganis, Sportscorp LTD. “It will attract not just a Super Bowl every decade or so but on an ongoing basis it will …