{"id":70545,"date":"2018-05-01T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=70545"},"modified":"2018-05-01T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:44:03","slug":"fans-pack-soldier-field-for-chicago-bears-draft-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/fans-pack-soldier-field-for-chicago-bears-draft-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans pack Soldier Field for Chicago Bears Draft Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Darren Zaslau<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">On April 26th, fans filled Soldier Field for the Chicago Bears Draft Party to see who the team would select with the eighth overall pick. At the party, fans were also able to meet players, tour the locker room and participate in on-field activities. The Bears drafted Georgia linebacker Roquan Smith eighth overall.<\/p>\n<div>[vimeo 267432999]<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Fans wait in line outside of Soldier Field for the Chicago Bears Draft Party. (Darren Zaslau\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Zaslau Medill Reports On April 26th, fans filled Soldier Field for the Chicago Bears Draft Party to see who the team would select with the eighth overall pick. At the party, fans were also able to meet players, tour the locker room and participate in on-field activities. The Bears drafted Georgia linebacker Roquan Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":486,"featured_media":70549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2018"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fans pack Soldier Field for Chicago Bears Draft Party - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/fans-pack-soldier-field-for-chicago-bears-draft-party\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fans pack Soldier Field for Chicago Bears Draft Party - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Darren Zaslau Medill Reports On April 26th, fans filled Soldier Field for the Chicago Bears Draft Party to see who the team would select with the eighth overall pick. 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