Would travel to an Arlington Heights Bears stadium be better or worse than Soldier Field? It depends on how you get there, fans say.

When Metra last counted passengers at its train station in fall 2018, the Arlington Park station, which serves the site, was the 15th-busiest in the system outside downtown Chicago, with 1,740 boardings per day, Gillis said. The downtown Arlington Heights station was the fifth-busiest in the system outside downtown Chicago, with about 2,500 boardings per day.