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It's always the trolls with some cartoon as their profile picture.

[NCAA Softball @NCAASoftball]

Had a blast at the Greatest Show on Dirt 🤩

#WCWS x 🎥 ESPN

[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.

[MB @Mbrew87]

@LeadingReport Win it all now Rangers..

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

There is a new l $400 million dollar Muslim only community in Sheridan, Illinois

It sits on 165 acres, has 332 condo-style units, water park, golf, lakes and a planned mosque

It’s called V Resort Living

The ad for the property needed a voice over because the man couldn’t speak English

It emphasizes a “safe & faith-based community” for Muslims

That’s their way of saying it’s “Muslim only” without saying it’s “Muslim only”

It’s already “complete” in terms of physical structures and units are being sold now

[Attorney Sholdon Daniels @SholdonDaniels]

Chicago Bears should have drafted a roster full of Haitian immigrants.

Chicago would have funded the entire program.

[MB @Mbrew87]

@TVallese Well Trev people were eating Tide Pods.. someone would try to drink from it and then sue once they got sick

[MB @Mbrew87]

Bears doing what a lot of Illinois residents have done under @GovPritzker

[MB @Mbrew87]

@DarrenBaileyIL Wtf dude?

[MB @Mbrew87]

@paschutz Bullshit how much of our money went to illegals?

[MB @Mbrew87]

@ChicagoBears What did you think would happen when they hired KEVIN WARREN !!!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is The Wyndham Springfield Hotel in Springfield, Illinois

This is the city’s tallest building but now sits closed, abandoned and boarded up

The owner is Al Rajabi, an Arabic man who tries to committed fraud by paying to have the property vandalized to get a payout

Here’s what happened

The hotel suffered extensive flooding and vandalism occurred, damaging multiple floors, elevators, fire suppression systems, alarms, electrical systems, and more.

The Springfield Police, Fire Department, and Illinois State Fire Marshal investigated it as intentional vandalism from the start. The building was declared unsafe, leading to closure and layoffs

Owner Al Rajabi filed a large claim

Insurer Affiliated FM refused payment and countersued, explicitly alleging that:

- Rajabi intentionally caused or colluded in the damage like cutting pipes and damaging electrical systems
- He made “willful misrepresentations and concealments.”

A prior 2024 “lightning strike” claim for which they paid $4.05 million was also fraudulent with exaggerated with minimal actual damage

All these people do is scam. Diversity is not our strength

[MB @Mbrew87]

@DarrenBaileyIL Why did I got to Oklahoma and their roads are nice, gas was cheap as hell, Zyn were $4... it was clean and cheap but yet so expensive here??

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Peak YouTube days😂

[New York Post @nypost]

Cop arrested, fired for allegedly pointing gun at fellow officer who microwaved fish at police station https://t.co/DkE9a4Vx4h

[MB @Mbrew87]

Kevin Warren what no way who could have seen that coming? @DPiper247

[104.3 The Score @thescorechicago]

.@brendenmoore13: "There’s a lot of blame to (go) around. The legislature and governor are not blameless. But if you talk to people in Springfield ... there’s a name that keeps coming up as a common denominator for why the Bears have had so many issues. And that's Kevin Warren."

[MB @Mbrew87]

@Sturdy32 Checks some boxes and seems to be a good hire! I hope she can get it turned around!

[MB @Mbrew87]

@GuyDealership Online leads are majority awful

[Monica Perry @CoachMonica35]

Travel ball coaches, notice how they pulled her from the field and sent her to the bullpen to warm up before putting her in to pitch. 👀

Your 12U pitcher deserves a proper warm up too.

[MB @Mbrew87]

@mrwagner25 How long and what temp did you do?

[MB @Mbrew87]

@Sturdy32 Lights out isn't gonna hurt anyone.. we played on the worst field we've ever played on today down here. A neglected elementary school. Thanks @USSSA