Six days after drawing Inter Miami in the team’s first clean-sheet of the season, the Fire are back at Soldier Field as they prepare to host FC Cincinnati, a Midwest rival that has ambitions of being one of the top league’s top teams this season. In their final
1. The floor is going up In the opening moments of the Fire’s 2025 campaign, the offense looked dynamic, with Jonathan Bamba setting up a brace for Brian Gutiérrez inside of 22 minutes. The problem? The Fire kept conceding – giving up their 1-0 lead just six minutes later, and
CHICAGO, Ill. — A crowd of 62,358 came to Chicago’s lakefront to see the Fire take on Inter Miami. The record-breaking crowd saw everything but a goal, as the teams finished the match with a 0-0 draw as the Fire remained undefeated – but still searching for their first win
Heading eastward along the Eisenhower Expressway, he’s nearly impossible to miss. Five stories tall, wearing a distinctive pink jersey, no. 10 on the back, Lionel Messi is on a billboard as the latest installment of MLS’s tried-and-true tradition of using global stars of the game that the league
On Sunday, for the third – and possibly final – time, an Inter Miami team with Lionel Messi on the roster will face the Chicago Fire at Soldier Field. In the first two, Messi didn’t play. The question, asked on countless social media posts, in questions to friends with season tickets
For the 2025 season, Chicago Fire fans can now order gluten-free options at Soldier Field – if they know where to look, are persistent – and if they are willing to wait. That, at least, is based on the experience of MIR97 Media ordering a gluten-free hot dog, pictured above, ahead of
After a disappointing draw at home against CF Montréal, the Fire are back on the road – this time to Harrison, New Jersey to take on the New York Red Bulls at Sports Illustrated Stadium (née Red Bull Arena). Head Coach Gregg Berhalter’s side will be facing the MLS Cup
The Chicago Fire's winning run came to an end last night when the team tied CF Montréal 1-1 at a rainy Soldier Field, with Dante Sealy's second half goal canceling out Philip Zinckernagel's opener. The draw means that the Fire's search for
A year ago, the Fire hosted an early spring game against CF Montréal and managed to turn a three goal deficit into a 4-3 victory off a Kellyn Acosta goal assisted by the elements at Soldier Field. This year, there would be no Windy City miracle, and the Fire’s
After three wins straight on the road, the Fire are back at home as they host CF Montréal, a team that made headlines around the league on Monday when they fired Head Coach Laurent Courtois just five games into his second season in the dugout, in a press release so
The Fire head to Vancouver for the third and final game of their road trip to take on the Whitecaps, the last MLS team with a perfect 4-0-0 record to start their 2025 campaign. The Fire are the only other MLS team that has an unblemished record in Canada in
With their first win in the books courtesy of a gutsy performance against Dallas, the Fire head back out on the road to face Toronto FC – the fourth time and final this season that the Fire will play in a team’s home opener. The match will pit a banged-up
A heavily depleted Chicago Fire traveled to Texas to face FC Dallas and went down by a goal in weather thoroughly unconducive to the kind of possession-based, ball-dominant soccer that Fire Head Coach Gregg Berhalter has espoused. They then walked away with a 3-1 victory, giving Berhalter his first win
Having notched their first point in the standings last week in their home opener, the Chicago Fire head to Dallas where they take on an old – if now unfamiliar – foe in FC Dallas as the team searches for its first win of the season. The match is also the team’
A handful of days before Christmas, MLS gave journalists who cover the league or its teams and the most ardent fans – “sickos,” as longtime league personality Andrew Wiebe has affectionately called them – an early gift by releasing the amount of general allocation money (GAM) that each team had available. Today,
On Monday, MIR97 Media joined other reporters and journalists for a tour of the Endeavor Health Performance Center, the team’s new, state-of-the-art training facility in the Near West Side as part of the team’s official ribbon cutting ceremony. We were guided through the facility by Paul Cadwell, the
