{"id":724705,"date":"2026-06-25T07:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724705\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:34:19","slug":"bears-are-working-on-a-bill-for-an-illinois-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724705\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears are working on a bill for an Illinois stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, the Bears are moving forward with a new stadium project in Indiana. No, the Bears haven\u2019t pulled the plug on finding a solution in Illinois.<\/p>\n

Via Christopher Placek of the Arlington Heights Daily Herald, the Bears are cobbling together parts of different bills<\/a> that were making progress during the most recent legislative session, in the hopes of arriving at one bill that will get through the Illinois House and Senate.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters at an unrelated event in Chicago on Tuesday, Governor J.B. Pritzker said the Bears have asked for advice regarding the drafting process.<\/p>\n

“[W]e\u2019ve been advising and trying to help out wherever we could,\u201d Pritzker said. <\/p>\n

Nothing can happen without a bill that reduces to writing the things the Bears want from Illinois.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a bill,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s really what we need them to put together are the provisions of a bill. It\u2019s one thing to articulate generally what you want. It\u2019s another thing to actually say we\u2019d like a provision like this, a provision like that. And those are, many of them anyway, already written.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pritzker repeated on Tuesday his willingness to call a special session<\/a> of the legislature, if one specific bill will be presented. Pritzker also threw water on the idea that the Bears have a viable project in Indiana.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the Indiana legislature chose to do is to foist it all off on the counties and the cities around (the potential) stadium,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cAnd so, guess what? They don\u2019t have a tax that\u2019s passed to help pay for it there. They don\u2019t yet have the tolls that would be required to pay for it there. We don\u2019t want to raise taxes on the people of Illinois. . . . And so we think we\u2019re actually as close as anybody to getting a stadium done here. I don\u2019t think Indiana is a whole heck of a lot closer than we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indiana continues to be, in our view, the leverage to get something done in Illinois. The fact that the Bears are still working to make something happen in Illinois makes that as clear as it can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, the Bears are moving forward with a new stadium project in Indiana. No, the Bears haven\u2019t pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-724705","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\/724705","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=724705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}