SOUTH LOOP — Sorry, sports fans: The Chicago Bears will be taking their talents to Arlington Heights after all.

Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren broke the news to season ticket holders — and later on social media — in a letter ahead of Monday night’s season opener against the Minnesota Vikings, bringing years of speculation to a close. Team brass said they are focused on building out a new fixed-roof stadium on the former site of the Arlington International Racecourse in suburban Arlington Heights with hopes of hosting a Super Bowl as early as 2031. “Moving outside of the city of Chicago is not a decision we reached easily,” Warren wrote in the letter. “This project does not represent us leaving, it represents us expanding.” The Bears have called Soldier Field home since 1971. In anno

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