Greg Broyles

Beverage Director

[Greg Broyles @gregorybroyles]

@VinnysCorner1 Marty Barrett

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[Greg Broyles @gregorybroyles]

@JackMac WTF is this?!?!

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@melaninglamour This guy is sorta “special.” He’s got his keys around his neck. Unemployed. Wants to be a mobile mechanic. Self repping for the office mgr. He’s a bit touched. Annoying but not a bad guy.

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@teacherinchi @ChicagosMayor CPS starting salary as a newbie is $57K

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@dom_lucre She should be arrested for just wearing that hat.

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@TheCinesthetic Sinners

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@chicagobars @barstoolWSD It was always square-cut or Chicago thin vs NY style thin?

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This is one of those days where we can all say we’ve outdriven Tiger Woods. #tigerwoods

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@chicagobars Vaughans

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@thegabriel72 She looks just like Nick Saban.

[Filming in Chicago @filming_chicago]

WTF did it rain dirt in Chicagoland last night?

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@ChicagoContrar1 That’s BS. Not how drugs work.

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@CWBChicago What bar?

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@BlackGryph0n @DiscussingFilm @thejaredbush ? Explain please.

[Paul Vallas @PaulVallas]

CWB revealing the man who set Bethany MaGee on fire on the CTA last week had 72 arrests and is the latest instance of a violent, habitual criminal who should have been in jail awaiting sentencing rather than on the streets free to commit additional crimes.

Responsibility for Lawrence Reed, a man with 72 prior arrests roaming Chicago’s streets, rests with County Board President and Dem. Party Boss Toni Preckwinkle. “The Architect” of pretrial release and overlord of Cook County’s failing justice system.

Preckwinkle twice gave us Kim Foxx, Mayor Johnson once, and likeminded County judges who often overrule prosecutor’s appeals to detain violent criminals. CWB reports almost 20% of those arrested for violent felonies were home on pretrial release awaiting trial on other felonies.

From 2020-2024, even before the Safe-T Act, 408 arrested for murder or attempted murders were on pretrial release. Given the abysmal arrest rate that number awaiting trial for other felonies is four to five times higher. Voters will soon have a chance to retire “The Architect”.

[Ja'Mal Green @JaymalGreen]

I’m glad you said that,

Brandon Johnson has an over 150 police officer detail to protect him that costs us over 30 million a year. What about that in the budget? He’s unpopular, why do you need to have the largest detail of any mayor ever?

Did you also forget that Brandon Johnson put forth a 300 million dollar property tax increase last year? It was rejected by city council.

This budget increases rideshare fees for folks taking uber and lyft for a second time. He increased fees for streaming and cable. He added 50 new speed cameras and increased the bag tax in stores. He wants to tax businesses to so they leave and our property taxes increase AGAIN!

Stop this BULLSHIT about he’s trying to fight the rich, he’s hurting us. Y’all are LIARS!!

[Midwest Millennial @MillennialVerse]

.@SenSyverson35 responds to the old viral video that’s making the rounds—confirming the Illinois Democrats priorities were upside-down then and still are now.

Democrats allocated billions for illegal aliens—not Illinoisans who actually need help.

Those priorities should tell you everything. Flip Illinois Red—November 3rd, 2026. 🇺🇸

[Greg Broyles @gregorybroyles]

@_sagnikbasu It’s the same with cab/uber drivers

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@TheCinesthetic Ferris Bueller