CHAMPAIGN, ILL. ? Champaign, Chicago, Green Bay. It doesn’t matter where Brett Favre is when he plays the Bears.

Favre threw three first-half touchdown passes Monday night, surpassed 40,000 yards passing for his career and led the Green Bay Packers to a 34-21 victory against Chicago.

Favre, 17-4 in his career against the Bears, threw an 85-yard TD pass to Donald Driver in the first quarter the second longest of his career and the Packers (4-1) took a 24-14 halftime lead.

“I never say it’s as good as he’s been because he’s been pretty dang good,” Packers coach Mike Sherman said. “But that would be tough to top, the first half. … He was pretty close to playing as well as you can there at one point.”

Green Bay took control in the third quarter when Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila intercepted Chicago’s Jim Miller and lumbered 72 yards for a touchdown as the Bears (2-3) lost their third straight.

Green Bay’s victory Monday night was its 15th in the last 17 meetings with the Bears, this one coming on the grasslike artificial surface at the University of Illinois where Chicago is playing this season as Soldier Field is being overhauled.

Favre, who was 22-of-33 for 359 yards, also had TD passes of 19 yards to Tyrone Davis and 5 yards to Bubba Franks in the first half.

Green Bay's Donald Driver catches a touchdown pass during Monday's game against Chicago in Champaign, Ill.

“That’s just Brett. He’s a Monday nighter,” Miller said. “He plays well and plays with a passion. You don’t want to be on the other end of it, that’s for sure.”

Miller also threw three TD passes, hitting John Davis with a 21-yard TD pass with 6:50 left to make it 34-21.

Chicago made one last thrust when Miller hit David Terrell with a 52-yard pass to the Green Bay 7. But Nate Wayne intercepted Miller in the end zone with just more than 2 minutes left.

Miller also threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Marty Booker late in the first quarter that made it 14-7.