{"id":675729,"date":"2026-05-31T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675729\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:05:14","slug":"bears-stadium-deal-moves-to-back-burner-on-last-day-of-illinois-legislative-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675729\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears stadium deal moves to back burner on last day of Illinois legislative session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois legislature is playing beat the clock. But not for a new Bears stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Via the Chicago Tribune, balancing the state\u2019s budget has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/05\/30\/illinois-lawmakers-race-to-finalize-55b-budget-as-bears-stadium-talks-take-back-seat-on-final-day-of-session\/?lctg=0406442C148F95C2D489842F88&amp;utm_email=0406442C148F95C2D489842F88&amp;active=no&amp;utm_source=listrak&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2026%2f05%2f30%2fillinois-lawmakers-race-to-finalize-55b-budget-as-bears-stadium-talks-take-back-seat-on-final-day-of-session%2f&amp;utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-breaking_news_business_sports-nl&amp;utm_content=alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">superseded the effort<\/a> to reach an agreement that will entice the Bears to remain in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Talks on a plan that would get the Bears to not accept an offer to build a new stadium in Hammond, Indiana, have taken a back seat to the effort to finalize a $55 billion budget. While discussions continue on a stadium deal, balancing the budget is the priority for the session that ends at midnight on May 31.<\/p>\n<p>Absent an eleventh-hour resolution, the Bears will have only one viable option, for now. The question then will become whether Hammond is simply a bluff aimed at getting a deal that would finance a stadium in Arlington Heights, or whether the Bears will abandon the effort to stay in Illinois and cross the border to Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>They wouldn\u2019t be the first team to do it in recent months. After the Chiefs failed to get a deal to renovate Arrowhead Stadium, they struck a deal to build a new stadium not in Missouri, but in Kansas. <\/p>\n<p>Fifty years ago, the Giants left New York for New Jersey. Eight years later, the Jets joined them at Giants Stadium and, more recently, MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Illinois legislature is playing beat the clock. But not for a new Bears stadium. Via the Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-675729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}