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We don't trust anyone on the Bears stadium project issues | Take The North
03 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What are the key issues surrounding the Bears stadium project?
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I am still trying to unpack the layers of this thing, as you are, as many of us are that aren't full time political entangled, you know, trying to entangle the knots that are in within this story, admittedly, have more. Questions and answers at this point, more confusion probably than clarity.
What I do know, above all else, is that I don't know that I trust anybody involved in this entire situation. Bears, state lawmakers, whatever. Is there anybody in this saga, which is filled with characters that you look at and say, they've got their ass together and they're going to get this figured out?
No. And just when I think one side does have their shit together, it comes against me. It's egg in my face, you know, because I, for instance, when the Bears bought the property in India or not bought the property, agreed to the deal in Indiana, had Indiana on their side. I thought it was a great move. by the Chicago Bears. I mean, there could not have been better leverage at all.
But since then, it's like they haven't really... It seems like the Bears haven't taken Indiana seriously. It's their move, and they're not making it, and it doesn't feel like the follow-through is really there. So I kind of got off the wagon on that, and I've kind of been hot and cold with the state of Illinois. Some of it necessary madness. I get it. Like, you do have to...
that's why they exist to do their due diligence to, in theory, to protect people, but they've dragged their feet so much on all of this as well. So yeah, no, I am with you on that. It's confusing. It's hard to figure out what side to be on and figure out who's right, who's wrong, and who is just in all of this.
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Chapter 2: Why is trust lost among stakeholders in the stadium project?
Lawmakers' new compromise was called the Municipal City Authority Act. That would allow Cook County municipalities with populations over 70,000 to create a public stadium authority. The Bears would...
entirely finance the stadium but transfer ownership to the municipality because the building would be publicly owned and the bears would pay uh property taxes on the stadium or zero i should say pay zero property taxes on the stadium itself very important distinction isn't it dan
it's well it's not only a very important distinction it goes against everything that these lawmakers said for months which was we don't want to give the chicago bears a huge tax credit we don't want them paying discounted property taxes on the property in arlington heights we cannot afford to do that and then they crafted a bill that said they pay no property taxes
whatsoever like so i still have not been been able to wrap my brain around that or gotten a good explanation on how suddenly that's better for the taxpayers of either illinois or cook county or whatever else than an actual bill that had the bears paying more property taxes in arlington heights than have ever been paid on that specific plot of land so anyway continue
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No, it's a great point, and it's an interesting turn. So here we have the Municipal Stadium Authority Act. The vote passes in the Illinois Senate. 37-17 was the vote at 3.30 in the morning. Were you up at 3.30, you said, Dan? Were you up for that vote?
I went the distance. I had to put a story together as soon as all of this had finality to it. It was like a lot of the games last year that the Bears played where you're like, okay, I've got something ready. Oh, I got to revise it. Oh, something else just happened. This just screwed up the entire, you know, context of what this lead was going to be.
Oh, by the way, now they have just adjourned and nothing occurred. Like nothing happened.
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