Why would someone sell their shares in a historic franchise to get a worse stadium deal than any other NFL team?
No, take the better deal in Indiana.
This is ALL on the shoulders of Illinois politicians. They are the ones who dropped the ball.
Billions to illegal aliens in Illinois, but no deal for the Bears.
And remember why after 5 years the BLUE State of Illinois could not come up with a viable plan to keep the Bears.
It took the RED State of Indiana 6 months
You see why Illinois is dysfunctional and Indiana is not
Don’t worry guys.
It’s totally normal for the no-name candidate deep in 3rd place to give a tear-filled concession speech on election night and then miraculously receive almost every Democrat vote in the 2 weeks after the election to defeat the most charismatic Republican candidate in decades.
Just another “safe and secure” election in LA.
This is how you know the election is rigged.
When Raman was behind, the media said there were still weeks left to count ballots and plenty of time for her to catch up.
But as soon as Raman overtook Pratt, the media suddenly declared her the winner and claimed the lead was insurmountable.
Hey Chicago Bears Fans,
Your blood is about to boil reading this:
I just did some research. The state of Illinois has spent over $2.5 BILLION on free benefits for illegals last year.
At the same time Illinois Governor @JBPritzker was telling the Bears there’s “no money” for tax relief on a new stadium.
Let that sink in.
For $2.5 billion the state of Illinois could have PAID for a new stadium for the Chicago Bears.
Instead, they spent it paying for lavish benefits for aliens, while running a $3 billion deficit and losing a franchise they've had for over 100 years.
This is what Democrat priorities look like. They hate you and will destroy your state for power.
Many schools literally have two-tiered justice.
Back in the late ‘90s at Choate, there was (and still is) an official Diversity administrator whose entire job was to help minority students “acclimate.” That meant getting them out of detentions and suspensions, letting them retake exams to inflate GPAs, etc. - the soft bigotry of low expectations.
It's even worse in public schools today.
My friend’s wife teaches middle school in an affluent north Houston suburb. Small minority population (~10%), many troubled/disadvantaged.
Teachers are explicitly told: do not formally discipline minority kids.
If stats show "disproportionate" punishment (> 10%) of minorities, the principal gets dragged by the superintendent. Career on the line.
This isn’t compassion.
It’s surrender.
We’re manufacturing the next generation of failures while calling it “equity.”
And then we act shocked at the results.
Nithya Raman already gave a concession speech.
Think about that.
Not even she believed it was possible to make the top 2.
But greedy machine Dems are still pumping her fake votes to get Spencer out of the top 2.
Insane levels of fraud.
Can’t respond because he’s too scared of the replies.
-2.8 Billion for illegal immigrants from Illinois
-Billions for data centers
-200m for Pritzker’s Hyatt hotel
-400m to Obama’s trash can
No money for the Bears, a 100+ year business that generates millions in tax revenue though.
🤡🤡🤡
This is NOT a failure for the state of Illinois. Stop. Giving. Billionaires. Handouts.
The lawmakers in Indiana are happy to sell out their taxpayers for a stadium that doesn’t bear their name and won’t ever recoup the millions they’ll spend to build and maintain it.
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.