Virginia served as the owner of the Bears since her father and team founder George S. Halas died on Oct. 31, 1983. Her son, George, has been chairman of the Bears since 2011, when he took over ...

Hundreds of friends and family, including fellow NFL owners and many former Bears players, attended the funeral of team owner Virginia Halas McCaskey. A funeral mass was held at St. Emily Catholic ...

Chicago Bears matriarch Virginia Halas McCaskey, who died in February, was not the first woman to become principal owner of an NFL team. Yet the woman who was lived nearby.

International Women's Day — the Bears hosted the first ever collegiate women's flag football game in the state of Illinois, featuring Benedictine University and Rockford University.

DES PLAINES, Ill. (WGN) — Leaders in the political, business and sports world joined Chicago Bears players and fans to pay respects to Virginia Halas McCaskey at a public visitation in the ...

History was made on the Chicago Bears' home turf as flag football took center stage in a groundbreaking collegiate matchup.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (WGNTV) — Virginia Halas McCaskey, the longtime owner and matriarch of the Chicago Bears, died Thursday at 102, the team announced in a news release. McCaskey had been the ...

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.