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Americans for Prosperity-Illinois conducted a poll of 300 registered voters in Arlington Heights. They found 72% of residents support the Bears building a stadium at Arlington Racetrack, which ended nearly 100 years as a horse track when the Bears agreed to purchase it. However, 68% oppose giving the Bears tax dollars to help build the new stadium.
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Good call AH residents. The Detroit Lions got an annual stadium subsidy from the State of Michigan that was given to operate the Pontiac Silverdome.
It became an annual budget appropriations “political football” in Lansing that didn’t go away until the Lions moved back to Detroit. Don’t go there.
Any interest in the NFL left me about 5 yrs ago
Same for me. It is a very racist business these days (in a reverse way.). More important to get some exercise rather than sit there watching.
People are more interested in their fantasy teams than the physical teams.
I stopped watching years ago after I realized that I was wasting the last few nice Sundays with good weather in the Fall staying inside my house and watching the Bears lose.
Then the NFL got woke and now they’re dead to me.
Still a big pipe dream. The Bears are too cheap to pay for their own building. The stadium costs, infrastructure expense, and annual property tax cost in the second highest property tax state in the US make it an economic impossibility. So watch for the Bears to ask for someone else to pay for the infrastructure. Someone else to kick in for a large portion of the stadium expense. And some kind of property tax give away. Who would those likely contributors be? Taxpayers of course. But Arlington Heights isn’t big enough to do it on their own– even if… Read more »