Can you keep a secret? The Bears’ inability to win a Super Bowl in my time working in Chicago turned out to be the gift that ...

The Halas family has owned the Chicago Bears since the team was founded in 1920, and Virginia McCaskey had been in charge since her father George Halas died in 1983. Now that she has died ...

Family and friends will gather Wednesday morning to honor Virginia Halas McCaskey, the longtime Chicago Bears owner, at a private funeral service. McCaskey, who died last week at 102, took over ...

She was 102.McCaskey’s family announced through the team that she died Thursday. She had owned the Bears since her father’s death on Oct. 31, 1983.“While we are sad, we are comforted knowing ...

McCaskey, a Bears vice president ... went into the hospital to have another baby,” he said. “Our version of family planning was to have the children born during the Chicago Bears off seasons.” ...

She was 102. McCaskey's family announced through the team that she died Thursday. She had owned the Bears since her father's death on Oct. 31, 1983. "While we are sad, we are comforted knowing ...

Ted Phillips, the first non-Halas or McCaskey family member to hold the title, still is team president. “She wielded the big stick inherited from her father with the same toughness she hides so ...

Getty Images On the worn grass of Soldier Field, four generations of the McCaskey family gathered in the early evening of Jan. 21, 2007. At their center was their matriarch, Virginia McCaskey.

“I had assumed — and so had Min (Minnie, his wife) — that the new arrival would be George Stanley Halas Jr.,” the founder and owner of the Bears admitted in the 1979 book, ...