Ain't Dead Yet
As we all suspected, there's still backroom dealing going on:
The competition to land the Chicago Bears' next stadium is intensifying on both sides of the Illinois-Indiana border, with leaders saying conversations with the team remain ongoing as new potential sites surface.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday that discussions with the Bears are "still alive," noting that the team has reached out to his office for guidance while evaluating options in the state. Meanwhile, Hammond, Indiana, officials say the team continues to show strong interest in property there.
Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott said on his weekly "Left of Center" podcast that he has been in frequent contact with the team.
Still a lot of time and a lot of campaign contributions to be disguised as bribe money.
Or is it bribe money disguised as campaign contributions?
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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How much more money can Illinois politicians steal from the people it’s almost unreal at this point. Anyone who believes these people care about you and not getting rich need to zoom out and wake the hell up.
Fuck the Bears...let'em go
The Bears see the writing on the wall. Indiana is growing and Illinois is losing businesses, population and investors.
Bottom line the Bears dont want to move to a shithole, even if they're giving them everything they want.
Still time to fleece Illinois tax payers out of millions and millions. It seems the only thing that bothers voters is if you enact a sugar tax. No other tax that the elected scumbags pass on to voters seem to bother voters in this state. JB will win by a landslide.
Who cares about these over paid thugs. Why waste a post on this when there are more important issues to talk about like our underfunded pensions Do any of us really give a shit if they leave?
I hope and don't care if the Bears move to Indiana!
Game day tickets are just not worth it!
Hammond is a disaster for the Bears. The goal is hosting a Super Bowl. The NFL isn't taking the teams to Hammond.
enough of all this talk about the bears,,, one day they are going here, the next they are going there,,,, no one cares
Who else gives a $hit about the Bears anymore? It’s has been a game about where they will build a new stadium. And all of Illinois, Crook County and the Hell hole of ChiRaq. Are tired of the Bull$Hit they are playing. Just Watch how the Fans react to this silly crap?
You wonder how hard they are working to give away billions and billions of our tax dollars how much will they get back then another note to the coppers that are complaining about their job look at this AI takes over General Motors factories. We are lucky to have a job that is not subject to total elimination, even though the Democrats are taking away a lot of money from us. At least we still have a job.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/21/us-news/gm-replaces-more-than-1000-workers-with-50-robots-at-flagship-detroit-plant/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost_lifestyle
If Indiana wanted to screw the Bears they would put a deadline, very soon, to accept the offer or the deal is off.
Leave already.
Money talks BS walks. Pony up or get out of the way.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
There's a ton of acreage at the site of the old sanitarium, now owned by Tinley Park at 183rd and Harlem. Tinley intends to develop the property into a business,sporting and entertainment complex. The Bears would have access to the site off of Interstate 80 which is about 2 blocks away. Might even be some infrastructure still in place. What the hell, it might be worth a try.
Or is it bribe money disguised as campaign contributions?
All blood money.
F NFL (BLM, kneeling for Nat Anthem) and MLB (moving of All Star games years ago, recent treatment of SF Gians for not wearing pride hats), NBA/WNBA BLM support (https://nul.org/news/nba-paint-black-lives-matter-courts-restart) and WNBA (obvious) mistreatment of Caitlin Clark. F'em! F'em all!
I don't mind the Bears leaving as long as they take MBJ and Pritz with them.
If the Bears care about Chicagoans, they’d move to Indiana. We cannot afford the tax increases to keep them here. It would cause even more people to move. It’s been fun, but a sports team should be mutually beneficial, not a tax burden on those of us who live here and can’t afford to go to the games because of the tax increases.
I’d rather go to Hammond
Sounds like they have No plan. No plan at all....
The only viable location that benefits the team and the fans is Arlington Heights……. That being said the problem is the teachers union that wants to be able to raid the Bears $$$ via property tax increases to fund their union i.e. Demoncrat money laundering machine….. and the Bears are fed up with being ripped off by Illinois politicians……. Furthermore Chicago owes appx $600,000,000 on the Soldier Field renovations form 20 yrs ago and wants the Bears to pay it…….
Fuck Chicago.... Go to Indiana
Back in the day, it was much simpler to get a deal done in Springfield. You just dealt with Mike Madigan.
Doesn't Pfather Pfaker live in Tinley Park?
On game day they will scan the horizon to see BP Amoco lurking in the background ain’t gonna happen
you are 100% correct im now a green bay packers fan
We can only hope that the Bears have already decided to leave and are keeping Illinois and Chicago on the hook for entertainment. Then body slamming them when they cross the state line for good.
Why not? Hammond is 15 min from Downtown Chicago.
Half hour from the loop. No issue
Close the f'n door already. Sent those useless pricks packing. They want a taxpayer funded venue with zero money paid in tax revenue. Sounds like the perfect deal, just like selling the parking meters and skyway. Hurry and sign!
They know a thing or 2 about losing.
All you clowns worried about the bears. Bunch of over paid kneeling mutants. Stupid enough to pay to enhance those that despise you.
No Zort No Bears. The Bears are still trying to find out who gets the envelope. Then you'll see movement.
It was easier back in the day of Madigan. You knew who was in-charge. Now every one wants to be a deal maker and has to be dealt with.
Tinley Dark,, a rapidly changing diverse neighborhood.
Upscale season ticket holders mostly reside on the north shore. Tinley, Hammond, might as well be Kentucky. It will be AH.
15 minutes my ass. Hammond is 30-45 minutes to get downtown. It's close to the shitty Southside. Ain't no one going out there!
Maybe someone should tell them they are already in a shit hole,
Anyone else just sick to death hearing this story? They are staying, they are leaving, they are going to Arlington, nope Chicago is still in the loop, nah they are going to Hammond, nope I mean Gary, Arlington is a done deal, nope Chicago, Hammond it is… 3 weeks later, Chicago is still in the loop. It’s all a horseshit game to make people as rich as possible with the best breaks, that’s all.
Check out who gave who what...
https://www.illinoissunshine.org/search/?term=pritzker&table_name=candidates&table_name=committees&table_name=officers&table_name=receipts&table_name=expenditures
fun site, lots of rabbit holes
Honestly, I could care less where this team winds up
Haven't watched a game since the kneeling crap.
Not enough at-home football games to ever make a stadium deal work. Basic Real Estate Development Truths 101. Supplemental use as outdoor entertainment venue works only for low-expectation concerts, only time when the weather is somewhat cooperative, functionally-speaking, four months of the year, and with rock-rap acts not keen on amphitheatre sound-quality of their performance.
Bears will move to IN. New name will be the Hammond Hemorrhoids .
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