Burn it All Down
Conehead taking a stand earlier this week:
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday mounted the legislative equivalent of a goal-line stand against the Bears’ quest for the property tax break needed to pave the way for a domed stadium in Arlington Heights.
Johnson questioned why any lawmaker from Chicago would even think about providing a massive tax break for a professional sports team valued at nearly $9 billion, while ignoring the need for what he calls progressive revenue to increase school funding and help working people struggling to make ends meet.
[...] Hours before joining fellow Chicago-area mayors in Springfield, where he has had little success, Johnson made it clear that he would use whatever political muscle he has to block the so-called megaprojects bill now before the Illinois Senate after clearing the Illinois House on April 22.Though Chicago is no longer part of the conversation to build a domed stadium needed to keep the Bears in Illinois and stave off a move to Northwest Indiana, Johnson is still holding out hope to keep the Bears in the city.
“I’m building things in this city. I want to build more things in this city. Why is that important? Because it creates opportunities for Chicagoans,” Johnson said. “Why would I advocate for something that wouldn’t benefit the people of Chicago? I don’t know why any Chicago legislator would vote for anything that doesn’t benefit the people that they represent.”
Conehead is building nothing and has almost no political muscle. He has no background in construction or economics and no allies in Springfield. His administration is presiding over the smallest number of permits issued to tower cranes in decades - under ten for all of 2026 - and that doesn't sound like a building boom.
And don't even get us started on the plywood forests of the formerly thriving downtown storefronts. Prickwrinkle should be undercutting Conehead at every turn, seeing as how Arlington Heights would still be in her sphere of influence.
An intelligent politician would be looking at what Soldier Field could be repurposed as, seeing as how there might be opportunities to exploit instead of whining about the perfectly logical move away from a failing city only looking to line its threadbare pockets.
Labels: city politics, sports
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
45 Comments:
You said it yourself SCC. He helping those in the board-up services industry. It looks like they will continue to have work for themselves.
Bears should leave - that would be a very smart and practical business decision. The long term income tax savings in Indiana is a large enough delta. The property tax delta is big too. Eventually Illinois income taxes will skyrocket by the progressive politicians. If all that isn’t enough, the Bears leadership should study the video of the teenagers pushing a police vehicle near Grant Park Friday night while everyone cheers. No respect for law enforcement = vary dangerous City for Bears fans and bad for business. Simple as that … Chicago will NEVER get better. Progressive politicians are multiplying like rats. The next mayor will likely be another goof too.
"Why do you need the Bears when you now have the new Mecca of the Midwest? Sim Sala bin.
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I don't know if the Bears bring in billions of dollars in tax revenue, but to say that he would spend it all on the schools is the same old democratic playbook move. It's all for the children, right? And the CTU which got him elected.
I too am questioning why a sports team worth billions need special tax treatment. If the Bears want the stadium that bad, it be financed privately. If it is the great deal that they claim it would be, private investors would be jumping at the chance to get in on the action. Their inaction should tell you a lot.
Mayor 6.6 is a great builder...of street takeovers!
Friends and relatives that still work downtown report that it's rather eerie in seeing businesses, shops and restaurants that have closed. They say you don't see the number of people that they used to. This Mayor is suffocating the City.
How can anyone who supports socialism, which is the antithesis capitalism, believe they can have economic policies that will be successful in a capitalist economy? It’s lunacy, and hopefully one day young people who currently support socialism will come to their senses and instead embrace capitalism
The Chicago DemocRATS won’t be happy until they completely destroy Chicago!
Commie racist filth should build himself a barber shop to trim that nasty scalp of his. Oh, hey cone head, go eat a bag of di#ks.
“I’m building things in this city. I want to build more things in this city. Why is that important? Because it creates opportunities for Chicagoans,” Johnson said.
Unfortunately Lego sets don't count pin head.
conehead will say he built the obamama ugly building next
Flee everyone. Whilst you can. That and this state are both lost.
Save your money, somehow, elsewhere.
"increase school funding"... yeah waste more money on a lost cause
Poor Conehead. Nobody loves him.
My WWII vet father had a term that describes Conehead and his administration: FUBAR
Tax payers shouldn't help pay for sports teams. They're private businesses, which if managed right, bring millions to the owner. Blah, blah, blah about the jobs they create. Tax payers are taxed enough in Illinois. The mayor isn't building anything here. Everyone is leaving. Michigan Avenue and State Street, once great shopping areas of the city, now smell like weed, urine and feces. It's like The Walking Dead with all the mentals and criminals looking for victims. I don't think Chicago will ever recover from the last few mayors, the woke polices, the crooked unions and the democrats stealing.
BraJo does have allies in Springfield. Among them, State Senators Robert Martwick, Graziella Guzman Mike Simmons & Robert Peters. State reps Lindsey LaPointe, Will Guzzardi, Theresa Mah, Kelly Cassidy.
The schools no longer teach about how horrible socialism and communism are. The majority of the teachers push it. When I was in school, we learned how bad it was and had survivors come in and talk to us.
No stadium has ever made any money for the stupid government that got conned into building it for a pro team. I say let them go to Indiana & screw the people of Lake & Porter Counties there! Their sale tax will go from 7% to 11 % & their real estate taxes will double for a place they will never be able to afford to go to!
Why are large home developments popping up across from illinois borders to neighboring states like wisconsin?The environment that the mayor and governor have created is highly toxic.The governor wants to run for higher office to meet his next level of incompetence.Normally anti gun people who are being targeted are now exercising their second amendment rights.and ask around. amendment rights. See the change?
“I’m building things in this city. I want to build more things in this city. Too bad the things are ALL PROBLEMS!
Its called the Obamalith
Oblivious suburbanites keeping downtown alive. Especially their kids traveling downtown on Metra to buy drugs and underage drink.
The real comedy of this situation is that he actually believes what he says.
Several more businesses will use this weekend to pack up and leave after seeing the police response to this terrorism. Just think...conehead had the solution right in his hand. All he had to do was let ICE and the National Guard in. Id like to see that car try to push around a military vehicle.
More money for dumber kids. The CTU would only demand more raises. This cycle of stupidity must be stopped. No new taxes!
I want the Bears to leave. Just go...
And plywood villages
“ An intelligent politician would be looking at what Soldier Field could be repurposed as…”
It basically already is repurposed. The Bears play, what, nine home games a year at most? And already practice in the burbs.
So for those other 356 days a year Soldier Field has nothing to do with the Bears. The stadium is used for giant concerts & soccer games.
Which is actually the biggest reason the Bears want to move in the first place - they get zero of the rental fee for those 356 days because they don’t own the stadium, the City does.
Anyway - now that we live in a Third World City, get used to Third World Sports - like futbol!
There is no one on the horizon that can save this city. Mendoza never said boo when her boss Ritchie was raising taxes. Gianolius just like to raise his money and he’s never done anything.
Bill Conway have a vote for a budget that was opposite of the Mayor that taxed all the working class people.
McCaskey family are the cheapest of cheap.....their going to indiana.
The city is lost to third worlders, might as well let soccer pick the leftover bones.
Start at the Harold Washington Library or maybe Jackson Blvd. and walk north on State Street. It’s completely boarded up for a good mile. I have been downtown for 30 years and never say State Street this f-upped.
I thought No Bail Peters was voted out.
Jethro Bodine Says:
Full Communist implosion of Chicago/Chiran is in full effect. Avoid this flashpoint combat zone .
It's those voices in his head that keep the one term mayhor always looking and sounding like the village idiot. If those voices would only stop whispering why this guy could look as good as Joe Biden.
I don't give a shit who they're raising taxes for. NO MORE TAXES. Start cutting, keep cutting, and cut some more.
The only things the government should fund are:
* Roads
* Police
* Fire
Make sure the utilities work. Make sure the trash is picked up and roads plowed. Forget all this other bullshit.
Want to go to school? YOU PAY FOR IT. Stop taxing property for that bullshit. Watch all this "step raise for breathing every year...", "lane change raise for taking a class" garbage come to an end. No more pensions for teachers making $100K/yr. No more 90% insurance. No more banking of PTO days every year... no more pay out of PTO when the bank is full... No more inservices, no more of this whole summer off crap.
You want to have 7 kids? YOU PAY FOR ALL OF THEM TO GO TO SCHOOL, leave the rest out of it.
Bears need to run to IN - because unless that contract is written by the firm that wrote the Parking Meter Deal, the fucking spendthrifts in the City, County, and State will figure out a way to tax the shit out of the Bears...
I'm sure the football players themselves would love the move to Indiana. No state income tax...
The State Lake new El station being built is helping to drive business down and out of business in the area. Looks like they are over budget and way behind already. Business is down in the 50% range in the area.
He'll win Allied Vanlines salesman of the year award too!
Be careful Anon. I've fantasized my whole life that eventually the electorate would someday understand that government can't give you anything that it didn't first take from someone else.
Mine used SNAFU!
Spot on and I know from my days in Detroit and the Pontiac Silverdome.
I'm thinking of becoming a bullfighting promoter. Just imagine the progressive intersections of bullfighting at Soldier Field! Ole!
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