Oh No!!!

It's the Indiana Bears....

Or is it?

• The Bears’ board of directors met Thursday and decided to move forward with their plans to build a stadium in Indiana, positioning the team to play its home games out of state for the first time in its 106-year history.

  The Bears’ Friday announcement to “advance our stadium development project in Hammond” tips the scales significantly toward Indiana — but falls well short of eliminating Illinois from contention.

  The precise stadium site in Hammond depends on which permutations of the Wolf Lake property the Bears choose. The Bears have a long list of boxes to check, too, ranging from environmental reports to traffic surveys to financial agreements.

  A league source cautioned the announcement didn’t eliminate Arlington Heights as an option, were the state to find a way to give the Bears property tax certainty on the 326-acre plot they own. In fact, the source said, there was “still a lot of ballgame left to play” for Illinois lawmakers. It’s unclear whether waiting until the Senate and House reconvene this fall would be too late for the Bears, though. The team considers Arlington Heights — not Chicago — the only viable choice in Cook County.

So this is yet another ploy in a long series of ploys over tax breaks and such. 

There's still a long way to go, but voters are getting a bit fed up with all the posturing. We are having a hard time finding anyone who actually cares as most season ticket holders already live in the suburbs and would like nothing more than to skip the downtown trip.