Chicago photography (free licenses):
- Unsplash: photo-1477959858617 (skyline aerial), photo-1494522855154 (Cloud Gate / The Bean), photo-1494522358652 (Chicago Theatre)
- Unsplash (new): photo-1494522855154 also used as chicago-bean-dusk.webp (Cloud Gate plaza)
- Wikimedia Commons: Soldier Field Nov 2023 (CC), Chicago River night, Lakefill in the winter, Chicago Skyline on the Chicago River at night, Chicago Grant Park night pano
- Wikimedia Commons (new): File:CTA_Night.jpg → chicago-cta-night.webp (looking north from Adams/Wabash 'L'); File:Buckingham_Fountain_Chicago.jpg → chicago-buckingham-fountain.webp

Bears/team art: original Cold Front SVGs (paw-mark.svg, football-silhouette.svg, jersey-54.svg) — not NFL trademarks.

Mobile -sm.webp variants: same sources, resized (~720px wide) for lighter city-tile <picture> srcset on narrow viewports.

Wired in v1.6.0: chicago-grant-park-night.webp + chicago-river-skyline-night.webp as cinematic photo-band backgrounds on Team / Practice / Home (already attributed Wikimedia sources above).

Wikimedia Commons (v1.6.0):
- File:Chicago_Lakefront_Night_Skyline.jpg (CC BY-SA 3.0) → chicago-lakefront-night.webp
- File:Chicago_from_North_Avenue_Beach_June_2015_panorama_2.jpg (CC BY-SA 3.0) → chicago-north-ave-skyline.webp

Unsplash (v1.7.0):
- photo-1643146674758 / Oz3tnZzNqzg → chicago-navy-pier-night.webp (Navy Pier Ferris wheel + skyline)
- photo-1601569561022 / s2etvGYObTI → chicago-lincoln-park-night.webp (Lincoln Park / skyline over water at night)

Wikimedia Commons (v1.7.0):
- File:Chicago_in_2022_Marina_City_at_night_(52053164103).jpg (CC BY 2.0, Chris Rycroft) → chicago-marina-city-night.webp

v1.8.0 stadium hero crops (derived from existing Wikimedia Soldier Field assets above — no new third-party photos):
- hero-soldier-desk.webp / hero-soldier-mobile.webp ← art-directed crops of soldier-field-dark.webp
- hero-soldier-alt-desk.webp / hero-soldier-alt-mobile.webp ← art-directed crops of soldier-field.webp
Layered fail-soft: primary night stadium → alt stadium → CSS gridiron + original football SVG silhouette.