Kelly

Mom. Hard worker. Kid at heart. Love sports. I-L-L-I-N-I ❤️BLACKHAWKS ❤️ CUBS❤️

[Luke Lowry @LukeJLowry]

🚨COMMIT ALERT🚨

2027 3⭐️ Iowa tight end Cade Newman commits to Illinois!

Welcome @CadeNewman17 to the famILLy, #IlliniNation! 🔶🔷🏈

[Cade Newman 3⭐️ @CadeNewman17]

Very grateful to announce my commitment to the University of Illinois! Couldn’t have done this without the support system behind me, my parents, friends, family, Ben Durbin, Coach Pezzetti, Coach Booth, and everyone else who has impacted my career! Super excited for this opportunity! Let’s get to work! ILL🟠🔵 @IlliniFootball @BretBielema @_CoachElliott @canewman22 @achsjagfb @Turbo_Durbo1 @AdamBooth1085 @Recruit2Illini @IllinoisRivals

[Illinois Men’s Golf @IlliniMGolf]

Developed for what comes next.

Since the inception of @PGATOURU, we've had five players earn status through their performance at Illinois.

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

#CUBS WALK IT OFF!

FINAL: Cubs 3, Giants 2.

[Chicago Contrarian @ChicagoContrar1]

As the grand opening of the overpriced, oversized, and overblown monument to Barack Obama's enormous ego nears, we are reminding Chicago Obama did absolutely nothing to improve Chicago.

The fact the Obamas even chose not to live here post-presidency is revealing.

[Illinois Men's Tennis @IlliniMTennis]

Doubles champs in Hungary!

Congrats to Adam and David on winning the doubles title at ITF M15 Szentendre!

[The Champaign Room @Champaign_Room]

ICYMI: Illinois Football featured in College Football 27 trailer 👀🏈🎮
#Illini

(🎥 via @EASPORTSCollege)

[Illinois Softball @IlliniSB]

Welcome to the famILLy, Yolanda McRae!

She joins Coach Hall's staff as an assistant coach, with over 15 years of Power Four experience.

📰 | https://t.co/BnOOatXzYX

[The Champaign Room @Champaign_Room]

Illinois is only one of twelve schools with 29 or more ranked wins since 2020 🔥🏀 #Illini

(📊 per @CBKReport)

[Illinois Softball @IlliniSB]

Success every step of the way.

Coach Hall's career by the numbers⤵️

[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.

[Illinois Baseball @IlliniBaseball]

A historic impact.

After transferring into the Fighting Illini program, Nick Groves registered a .466 career on-base percentage during his two years at Illinois, which ranks second in program history.

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

Pritzker gives illegals ($2.5B) in free housing, medicaid and EBT cards, but they can't give the Bears

-Infrastructure
-Tax incentives- with certainty

Gov Braun (R) got the Bears bc he put Indiana first, Pritzker put Illegals first

Keep voting Democrat, you f'n dirtbags

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Chicago Democrats Just FUMBLED an Entire NFL Team to Indiana.

100 Years of History Gone. Running a City This Badly Isn’t an Accident.

Indiana is getting a brand new Bears stadium.

And Chicago gets to keep its crime, its taxes, and its $400M taxpayer funded Obama DEI trash can nobody asked for.

This is what decades of Democrat mismanagement does.

Businesses leave.
Teams leave.
People leave.

They'll blame everyone but themselves.

Indiana wins. Chicago loses. Again.

[University of Illinois @UofIllinois]

Nothing beats a C-U summer ☀️

[Gameday Spirit | Illinois @GamedaySpirit]

Bringing Illini pride with us wherever we go 🔥 Check out the new van!🟠🔵

[Brian Barnhart @BBarn64]

Congratulations to the Champaign News Gazette for winning 🏆 Illinois Press Association’s Newspaper of the Year for the 11th time in the last 12 years. In sports terms — that would be called a “dynasty” !

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

The Chicago Bears managed to stay in Chicago despite the 1929 Great Depression, WWII, and the 2008 financial crisis, but they couldn't survive two incompetent Democratic leaders in Illinois and now they are moving next door to the Republican run red state of Indiana!

[Illinois Men’s Golf @IlliniMGolf]

The team behind the team.

Thank you to our whole Illini famILLy for continuously showing support and showing up throughout the season!

[Illinois Women's Basketball @IlliniWBB]

We can't wait to get to work with Lana!