Laura Ricketts and her fellow Chicago Red Stars investors are trying to figure out where and how they can build a dedicated training facility and stadium somewhere within Chicago city limits — ideally, anyway.
Chicago’s ownership group, led by Ricketts, purchased the team for $35.5 million last August and promised another $25.5 million in immediate investments for the historically underfunded team. The money that they are willing to pour into the Red Stars will easily add up to another nine figures if a new stadium is built.
“We knew right from the beginning — like, rewind back almost a year and a half ago when we started considering acquiring the Red Stars — we knew that the current [stadium] situation was not the ultimate long-term solution,” Ricketts told ESPN last week. “And really, the key to unlocking the door for this organization would be to solve that.”
The Red Stars’ drastic turn of fortune from one of the NWSL‘s most troubled franchises is a microcosm for the league: there’s…
