MLS Chicago Fire’s Toyota Park In the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, just a stone’s throw from Midway Airport, lies America’s fourth soccer-specific professional sports stadium (joining the existing trio of facilities in Columbus, Los Angeles, and Dallas). The new home of Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire, Toyota Park offers fans a much more intimate, up-close way to view the sport than the team’s previous home in the cavernous Soldier Field. Work commenced on Toyota Park in the fall of 2004, with the project being entirely publicly funded (by the Village of Bridgeview). The earth moving and grading, and then the construction of the stadium seating area, took about a year, which meant turf manager Abby McNeal and her staff would not be able to commence with the installation of the irrigati

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