the longtime owner of the Chicago Bears and the daughter of George Halas Sr., who created the team and was one of the founding fathers of the N.F.L., died on Thursday. She was 102 and had spent ...

Virginia McCaskey, who inherited the Chicago Bears from her father, George Halas, but avoided the spotlight during four-plus decades as principal owner, has died. She was 102.McCaskey’s family ...

Renderings of the proposed new Bears stadium south of Soldier Field. Chicago Bears Share Though she lived to the ripe old age of 102, Bears matriarch Virginia McCaskey did not live long enough to ...

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Mrs. McCaskey was the eldest child of "Papa Bear" George Halas Sr., a founding father of both the Bears and the National Football League. He came on as a player/coach with the team – originally ...

Though she lived to the ripe old age of 102, Bears matriarch Virginia McCaskey did not live long enough to realize her family’s long-held dream of building a new stadium. She left behind a ...

Mrs. McCaskey was the eldest child of “Papa Bear” George Halas Sr., who founded the Bears. He came on as a player/coach with the team – originally the Decatur Staleys – in 1920.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Virginia Halas McCaskey, who inherited the Chicago Bears from her father, George Halas, but avoided the spotlight during four-plus decades as principal owner, has died.

Born in 1923, Ms. McCaskey learned all about the team from her father, George "Papa Bear" Halas Sr., and inherited the team after his death in 1983. Ryan Baker reports.