Illinois Dem leaders fume when Chicago Bears mull business-friendly Indiana for new stadium – BPR

 
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Teyets
4 months ago

NW Indian is Chicagoland anymore without the insane taxation.

Deb
4 months ago

What does IL Democrats expect when the tax businesses out of the state to pay for illegals?

Isn’t Illinois Fun?
4 months ago

Well, at least the Indiana ruse is more credible than the Naperville ruse. Next ruse, Peotone!

Chaos In My Brain
4 months ago

If the Bears leave Chicago and Illinois I will give all of you 3 guesses as to who they will blame………

Riverbender
4 months ago

Am I to believe that something woke up some Illinois taxpayers? Spend, per the article, 2 billion on illegals, 827 million on Rivan and 536 million on Gotion with not much of a word but all of a sudden don’t open the wallet for the Bears and the roof starts caving in. Perhaps if these fine citizens would have been more observant with the mentioned expenditures there would be money plenty for the Bears but that was not to be. In other words the Illinois voters who could care less about the wildly spending by Pritzker et al are finding… Read more »

Old Spartan
4 months ago

When you are a multi-billionaire, and you go to $70 grand per year legislators asking them to give you a ton of money, you have to know how to ask nicely. And the ham handed Bears haven’t learned that lesson after almost forty years of chasing a deal. From the time Mike McCaskey made his first threats to leave back in the 1980’s, and him basically telling legislators he would not lobby for a deal because the Bears are almighty and deserve a gift, up to today, when they go back to a bungled strategy of threatening to move, their… Read more »

Wally
4 months ago
Reply to  Old Spartan

They did get a deal to get Soldier Field redone. A financially poor deal. However, they got a stadium that is the smallest in the NFL, not the best location, poorly done and outdated by the time it was done. So, now they want a new deal.

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