It's Happening
Conehead will probably go down in history as the mayor who let the Bears get away:
In an offseason surprise, some Chicago Bears fans got an email this week asking their opinions on seating options and pricing for a new stadium.
Is this a sneak peek at the new seats, and does it signal plans are moving forward for a move to Arlington Heights?
Some of the fans who received the email have long histories with the team, and there are a lot of concerns. But at least one expert asked for a quick time out on the speculations, though he does think this signals the team is moving forward with their plan to move to the northwest suburbs.
If the McCaskey's were any sorts of business people, they would have moved out years ago, built a new stadium out-of-pocket (instead of swindling taxpayers), and have a franchise comparable in value to the Cowboys.
Conehead was willing to sign away all the taxpayer money he could scrounge up, but Springfield was actually smarter in this case since they'll get their cut no matter where the Bears play in Illinois and taxpayers are more than a little fed up with billionaires getting hundreds of millions in "subsidies" for private enterprises.
But this is going to blow another giant monetary hole in the Chicago budget.
Labels: money questions, sports
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
80 Comments:
If they were any sorts of business people? They’re worth 1.6 billion dollars. I think they’ve done just fine. But I’m sure the retired city worker you are woulda made way more.
Glad I stop watching football years ago. I’m now spending quality time with the family and friends.
Fuck them...Get OUT !
I got the email and I’m all in on a move!
Release the Dogs of DOGE.
Summon the Kracken of DOGE geeks.
They were never ever going to stay in Chicago. Just played both sides to get the best deal. Just business. The lakefront has nothing to offer. It’s a shit show trying to go to a game there. It’s like going to a dead end or a culdesec. Same for concerts. Arlington Heights is a dream. Bears will own stadium, bars and hotels. It’s a no brainer. It will be way easier for me to go to Arlington heights than the lakefront by a long shot.
The only bright spot on Sundays and conehead lets it slip away total POS
Let them leave for greener pastures still to come more losing seasons
"Blow another giant monetary hole in the Chicago budget?" Nobody makes money on the Bears and Soldier Field except the Levy Bros, Danny Wirtz and all the Park District employees stuffing cash in their pockets. The taxpayer has only ever lost on Soldier Field.
Glad to see the Bears are leaving. Much better place for them and the fans to be in Arlington Heights. The White Sox are next and will move to Nashville.
I have a buddy at Arlington Heights PD. They are in the process of hiring 100+ officers/laterals for the Bears relocation. Sounds like a done deal.
Chicago has been in a death spiral starting in Daley’s beginning of his last term. It will be interesting what 20 years will bring.
And the death rattle of a once great city is being heard.
It started with Groot and ends with the mentally unstable Conehead. How did Chicago slip into such an abyss?
the who? bears? oh yea,,I used to watch them a long time ago then those poor oppressed multi-millionaires started complaining about how they and their people/folks are all victims of the evil white man and don't forget how they and basketball kept on painting blm on their floor and fields
i read something about players paying a jock tax to the city. is that why they want municipalities to burden some of the cost for a stadiun
The parking money alone blows a hole in the city budget. Those crooks finally get their comeuppance....
Brandon Johnson’s Chicago is sneaking shadow lobbyists into Springfield without telling the public.
A bombshell report just revealed that Johnson’s inner circle worked with THREE outside lobbyists who never registered to represent the city during this year’s legislative session. Why? Because their contracts were still “pending.”
Pending? Since when is "pending" a free pass to break the rules?
This is the kind of backroom corruption that has made Illinois a national punch line.
Democrat insiders are cutting secret deals, blurring lines between public service and political favors.
One of Johnson’s unregistered lobbyists is tied to the Chicago Teachers Union, which just so happens to be one of his biggest campaign donors. Another is a Springfield alderwoman buying up Capitol real estate for political events. They didn’t register until reporters started asking questions.
This isn’t just a paperwork error. It’s a pattern of deception that started with Mike Madigan.
Bears have taken the cheap rode for decades. Use taxpayer money and park district property.
The chicago teachers union.
That's how.
Let them go, how many days go they fill Soldier Field, maybe 15 games a year.Good Luck in Arlington Heights.Terrible long term move by the Bears.
The Bears are worth at least $6.5 billion, so if they want a stadium anywhere, just go to the banks & borrow the money to build it with the team as collateral. I sure hope the people of Arlington Heights aren't stupid enough to fall for the MCaskey's bullshit about the taxpayers needing to pay for infrastructure. The Bears should pay for all of it! They already ripped of Chicago for $400 million to turn Soldier Field into the Toilet Bowl & those bonds are nowhere near to being paid off!
I agree!! Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
And perhaps a litte safer.
A 40 year losing streak...BYE!
Ever listen to this dickhead Mayor of Chicago speak?? OMG, its clear he used to work for CPS. What an embarrassment.
Conehead will be long gone before the first game is ever played there.
Preach! My Sundays are so much better now. I have more hobbies and healthier friends.
Conehead is just trying to "keep up" with Mayor Urkel in Cleveland.
Who cares the NFL is a large anti police organization anyway. Still baffled you all support an entity that hates you.
Not to mention….
It’s sports entertainment it isn’t a legitimate sports league. It’s sports entertainment. Pre determined outcomes and scripts.
It started with Richard M Daley.
Like the Cowboys that’s funny the Bears don’t have Cowboy money. Look up how many nfl teams built their own stadiums, it’s like 2. And their idiot team prez who turned down advise on dealing with Illinois because he didn’t need any help.
And the cowboys are worth over 10 Billion you douche bag !
Yep, financially supporting blm, the “organization” that pushed for defunding the police and death to cops, but a lot of blind addicts in our dept can’t quit them.
They should just send their money directly to blm to eliminate the middle man and kneel down with them, like betancourt did.
By the Libtards electing these DEI clowns, who know absolutely nothing about running a megacity. These white guilt libtard only voted based on the color of their skin, not qualifications.
Oh just great 👍. Bring the ghetto shitbirds out to Schaumburg and Arlington Hts. With their crime and drugs.
Brandon and his Brain Trust are on a mission from God, to make Chicago "Detroit West" in the next few years.
You're a moron. They inherited an NFL franchise and the increased popularity of the sport combined with the TV revenue is what increased the value of the team despite their mismanagement. They are finally doing something smart.
Great. Go kneel somewhere else.
Good for you! 🙄
The huge crowds anticipated for the new Obama Temple will offset any Bears monetary loss. If that ugly dump doesn't fall down first
Sounds like business as usual
Full credit goes to Jerry Jones for creating the current NFL stadium money standard.
Correct all you nfl haters can go pound sand
The bears suck!! So it really doesn’t matter to me where they go.
I doubt we will see a monster of the midway team for a very long time, if ever.
Governor porky and bj the clown are the worst elected officials ever!!🤮
When it costs 25 bucks for a beer and a hotdog you lost me. Good riddance
People forget that after the Bears left Wrigley Field in the 70s they went to Soldier Field, the complete interior of Soldier Field was rebuilt with new locker rooms and facilities being installed under the stands as an alternative to building a new stadium. That temporary fix lasted twenty years until the toilet bowl was built. It’s time to remove Soldier Field. It’s obsolete. Arlington Heights sounds good.
Are there still thirteen hundred and fifty two guitar pickers in Nashville
There is going to be a large sucking sound of at risk concession workers (and the good people too) who are not going to be able to put food on the table in an unemployed status. The parking pirates bottom line will dry up as they will not be able to service the crowds with off the books parking in nearby vacant lots often resorting to crime to generate revenues. And the hustlers hawking counterfeit jerseys and hats at half the price of the communist chinese imported sportswear from those coveted overseas western labor law violating sports franchise sweatshops. And the Chicago democrat machine will lose clients to shakedown and extort causing a loss in profitability in Chicago's democratic oligarchy. Its the shekels. Bottom line. Its the money. Its a money generating enterprise for everyone.
Oh dont worry Chicago. Somehow someway Arlington Heights will fuck this up. The racetrack will be a Del Webb retirement community in about 5 years.
Sorry Bears. I'm taking a knee for allowing anti-Patriotism in your face displays and you can keep your social justice propaganda on helmets, goal post wraps and stencils in end zones garbage messaging with "Inspire Change", "Say their stories", "Black lives matter", "Stop hate, " "Say their stories", "It takes all of us" and "Stop racism" which was a slap in the face to the Men and Women in uniform protecting our Nation as well as the Men and Women in Blue who protect the homeland maintaining peace and order after the dopehead george floyd nationwide insurrection occurred. Take that knee for social justice.
The NFL is far left socially and is loyal to democrat controlled cities since generous tax carveouts are given, public financing for stadiums seems to be the norm and non-compliance to the left wing democrats will result in adverse legislation on the local level. It wasn't long ago the NFL monopoly had a non-profit 501(c) status saving billions in federal taxation and crossing the wishes of government authorities most likely led to this revocation resulting in the NFL paying their "fair share".
Put me on the "dont give as shit" list. I haven't watch an NFL game since they started the African Anthem shit show and pandered to the Injuns over a big nothing. Fuck the NFL. Fuck the Bears. Only a sucker would support the league.
What will happen to all those connected contracts for the games? If I was a connected democrat plugged business at the stadium, I would worry about the loss of this revenue stream and raising money for the obligatory business as usual elected officials kickback schemes keeping those with the most influence close.
And that Scam security company Monterey.
Nothing but good news for Chicagoans - they still get to go to the games without paying the billionaire tax-grift (except what the state gives them). And it won’t harm Chicago’s budget; no sports team is a money-maker for the taxpayers who have to subsidize it. Sports is entertainment, it’s not an important industry and shouldn’t be treated like one.
Continuing to vote for Democrats who pandered to the masses promising free stuff, "change", and wokeness springs to mind.
Sounds like total BS. Why would they need 100+ officers to work 13 sundays?
Because they are building more than just the stadium genius
Fuck the bears and white Sox. BLM backers and drunk fools
Cause they’re building a pool. Don’t wast the manager to fall in the pool. Mean pushed by out of tower college students. WTF. Shitbirds
Forget about it!
Stop wasting your time and money on sports teams that are advocating for your demise.
Let's get the Cardinals back!!! bye baby cubs
Probably setting up a test
They are leaving, Shortshanks and the McCaskeys ruined Soldier Field, leaving the citizens with a stadium that looks like a UFO crash landed in it.
If the stuttering prick is ever hauled into court to answer for his crimes he will just pull the old confused gangster defense again. Hell is hot, that is all I gotta say.
If the NFL is your only brightspot on Sunday I feel sorry for you
Damn-o-crats! That's how!
Horseshit. Not true
Ok sir, no loss
The Bears will try to keep their venue filled all year with some type of events. A hundred officers? Divide by three shifts, days off, vacation time, medical time, administration training time, additional supervisors, and you really don't have that big of an increase.
OT. Just when you think that the CPD is screwed up, just look at the NYPD. Hiring issues?
https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/us-news/dozens-of-troubled-nypd-recruits-finally-forced-to-resign-after-faulty-hiring-standards/
EXACTLY !!!
Notre Dame, Illinois,Indiana, Wisconsin,Northern Illinois, and a few other colleges could play a game at soldier field which would help with their recruiting. Not hard to fill the stadium 10-12 times a year. Enjoy Lake Arlington.
not sure what the correlation is between spending quality time with fam and friends and watching football? i guarantee youre the common denominator, sheepdog.
Sounds good to me. Extend the red line to the front gate of the new bears stadium.
Conehead will probably go down in history as the mayor who let the Bears get away.
That’ll be the highlight of his administration.
Fuck the Bears!
Another loser old cop. A lot of us love football and watch it with friends and family.
They support the NFL because if they didn’t bet on football, they’d have nothing to talk about every day at roll call.
Another loser old cop. A lot of us love football and watch it with friends and family.
7/11/2025 04:14:09 PM
Then you and your friends and family must all hate the police and love watching those players forced into their multi-million-dollar contracts of servitude to the evil white man
I’m all for the Bears to move but it will have an impact on revenue for the city. Don’t forget the taxes that the city adds to buying tickets, parking, food, beverages, merchandise etc.
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