Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon guest on AM560 with Chris Krok discussing CTU lawsuit agains Illinois Policy and more
August 19, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
So sad. I can’t even say it: “the Indiana Bears.”
JB is a trust fund baby who’s never been told “no” nor held to account. Bought a job where he makes statements and decisions that affect everyone but him. He. Doesn’t. Care.
This is what happens when you favor illegal criminals over Bears fans.
The McCaskeys have nothing to gain by staying in Chicago.
The money flows to them will always be greater in Indiana, especially since Illinois will continue to be a criminally run organization for the next 100 years.
The White Sox should also move to Indiana.
Your post makes it sound like you should move to Indiana, if you don’t already live there or some other heavily red state.
Let’s explore….1) No unions in Indiana; 2) Less taxes in Indiana; 3) The infrastructure improvements will be slow – here’s some news – no state moves slower than Illinois. Go for it Bears!
The Hammond development seems to be a win-win-win for the NFL/ Bears, IN, and fans. Also, no ‘success penalty taxes’ in IN for the NFL players. To maximize NFL payroll caps, no NFL activity should occur in IL. Players found out the hard way with the last Superbowl in Santa Clara, CA where the winning QB LOST $$$ due to the ‘success penalty tax’. Hopefully the Bears build a dome like in Indy so the Superbowl, NCAA FF, and other big events can happen in Hammond. I would advise that IN plan for a new NBA / NHL arena and… Read more »
At the eleventh hour, Arlington Heights claims an advantage because of needed infrastructure in Indiana. Two important points were omitted. 1) Illinois is currently balking at putting in improvements so it isn’t ready to go – and the increased traffic would undoubtedly overwhelm AH without those improvements. Nevermind that “little” detail is nowhere close to final with the numbskulls in Springfield. 2) they forget that Indiana does not have a fraction of the red tape and posturing about who does what work that Illinois would have to deal with. Indiana has a budget surplus because of fiscally responsible leadership and… Read more »
IN is ‘Right-to-Work’ which immediately gives the state advantage over IL. When there’s open competition, IL is in trouble.
Have no fear…the State Legislature will ride in on their rented horses and steal $100B or so from the Children, grand children and great grand children of Illinois parents and provide the millionaires of the Bears a nice place to play a child’s game. All will be well and Jumbo will take credit for it.
Sadly, I think you’re right.
Yes, but if Illinois doesn’t provide the funding, then someone else will.
Yep, no doubt. Honestly I couldn’t care less if the Bears stayed or left, but the concern I have is the remaining debt on the remodel job done on Soldiers Field years ago…the City and State refinanced the bonds and kicked the payment can down the road so that now there is still significant debt to be paid ($500M if I remember correctly). The Bears lease termination liability (about $90M) doesn’t cover the debt, so again, the Tax Payer is screwed by a bad deal that was not in the interests of the Citizens. The Park District apparently thinks they… Read more »
Anyone who can leave JB the Hutt’s farcically-run Illinois is leaving.
He looks more like Fred Flintstone to me.
Illinois and Pritzker are the laughing stock of states. They are making odds that “Da Bears”
are leaving Illinois. Great job idiots, there is no
chance the bears will stay. Poor Bunky BJ
will be laughed at by the US over the Bears
leaving. Let’s sing the NEW Bears song everytime jumbo hits the stage, Bear down
Hammond Bears sung to the old melody.
The next on the plate the Memphis White Sox.
Let me be the first to admit my mistake. The McCaskey family is smarter than I thought.
Putzger is shitting in his pants over presidential run. Worst taxed state then losing an original NFL team will make for really bad optics.
Plus pulling his toilets to save $325,000 in real estate taxes .
Nobody cares about ‘muh toilets’ conservatives have been screaming about for a decade now.
Losing the Bears, acting clueless about it, and then attacking the Bears managements is one of the worst things to happen to him. Everyone in the country will blame him for losing Da Bears.
That’s more a reflection of the Useless Chicago Media. If Darren Bailey or TD pulled a stunt like that, the Useless Chicago Media would cover it like FoxNews covered the Today Show kidnapping. Typical of the UCM, the stunt would somehow be deemed racist and linked to climate change.
LOL. Nobody cares about disconnected toilets. It doubt it could sway one single vote let alone an election.
Let me fix that for you – “democrats don’t care about crime committed by democrats”
PPF – logical or not, a significant number of people do care about keeping the Bears in Chicago or ar keast in Illinois. Politically the Bears leaving is harmful to both Johnson and Oritzker. I grew up in my grandmother’s house across the street from the Bears HQ in Lake Forest. During the NFL’s practice of blackouts for non-sellout games, we ended up often watching Packer games as we could pull in the Milwaukee tv transmissions being north of the city. Such an odd circumstance. The Bears were deeply part of the culture and any notion of the team moving… Read more »
Not sure why you directed your comment to me. I agree that many people care about the bears remaining in Chicago/Illinois and it will be a black eye for Johnson and JB if they leave. Have I posted any comment that made you think otherwise?
I commented that nobody cares (at least enough to swing votes) about disconnected toilets that many here clamor about as if it’s some kind of magical trump card.
As you know, the issue isn’t toilets. Not even worth a discussion. I personally don’t like subsidizing professional athletic teams in any way. Economists who have studied the matter don’t find that such expenditures produce any returns. The concept is that there are x dollars to spend on entertainment by the public and any professed returns on sports team subsidies should be met with skepticism. But that doesn’t diminish the fact that many people deeply care about the Bears. Not an NFLguy myself but it is clearly a real political factor. There likely is something to the notion that the… Read more »
Newsom is the shoe-in for 2028, unless there is an unexpected “Obama” to Hillary like in 2008