Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Tough to be a loyal fan of the Bears or any professional sports team when they don’t return the loyalty. But hey, it is professional sports…nutin but money.
Bye Bears! NYC didn’t shrivel up and die when they lost the Giants, St. Louis is basically the same sans Cardinals football/ Rams and Kansas City won’t crumble without the Chiefs. In fact, I can’t recall one city tumbling into ruin and chaos because they lost a professional sports franchise.
They are not moving to Indiana.
The point is far too many politicians are wasting far too much time sweating the business dealings of a billion dollar corporation. It won’t be the end of the world if they do move.
Indiana is pushing through a bill to create a sports facility authority to build a stadium for the Bears. Roger Goodell was there with McCaskey and Warren doing site inspections. Still. it’s hard to believe the Bears would move next to an oil refinery, even if it’s free,
https://bearstadiumdistrict.com/
It’s not about the Bears, it’s about money. The Bears would play eight, maybe ten games per year. The unions are all lined up, looking for jobs and probable tons of cost overruns. Officials of Arlington Heights are looking for the state, not them, to pay for millions in infrastructure while reaping revenues from stadium events. Studies of other stadium projects have shown that it’s the taxpayers that usually get ripped off. Taxpayers are still paying off for Soldier Field, the Bears previous threat to leave. So they use this “save the Bears” fear to get taxpayers to pony up.
Even if the Bears win the Super Bowl this year, there are very many Illinoisans who don’t care if the Bears move to another state. Life would go on with little or no withdrawal symptoms.