{"id":276518,"date":"2026-05-19T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:42:08","slug":"bears-to-brief-owners-on-stadium-plans-at-meetings-in-orlando-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276518\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears to brief owners on stadium plans at meetings in Orlando, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle over the Chicago Bears&#8217; next home is taking center stage on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>At Tuesday&#8217;s NFL owners meetings in Orlando, Florida, ESPN and other sources reports team owners are expected to get a special briefing on the Bears&#8217; two main stadium options: Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Hammond, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>The update comes as Illinois Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson-bears-stadium-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JB Pritzker<\/a>\u00a0and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are at odds over the team&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/illinois-house-lays-out-new-version-of-bears-megaprojects-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pritzker and state lawmakers have been negotiating on legislation to provide the Bears with property tax breaks for a stadium in Arlington Heights<\/a>, Johnson has continued to push to keep the Bears in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The team and the Pritzker administration have signaled that the only viable options for the team to build a new stadium are either Arlington Heights or Hammond, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker on Monday said he expects state lawmakers to approve a deal to help the Bears build a new stadium in Arlington Heights before the end of the spring legislative session, and slammed Johnson for having &#8220;no plan&#8221; to keep the Bears in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are three years in now, and he still has no plan. So, the Bears have said publicly, and I think they said so last Friday again, that they have now only two options, and that&#8217;s the state of Indiana or Arlington Heights,&#8221; Pritzker said.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois state lawmakers have until May 31 to pass an economic development package that could help keep the bears in Illinois. If that doesn&#8217;t happen, Indiana may end up with the home-field advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say losing the bears to the suburbs or across state lines would be a major political blow to the city and the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The battle over the Chicago Bears&#8217; next home is taking center stage on Tuesday. At Tuesday&#8217;s NFL owners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[118069,14579,2063,23954,72472,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-276518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-arlington-heights","tag-brandon-johnson","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-jb-pritzker","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}