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Chicago Bears Leaving Chicago

theriver55

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The Bears reiterated Thursday that they plan to leave Chicago as they continue to look at building a stadium in suburban Illinois or Hammond, Indiana.

"The Chicago Bears have exhausted every opportunity to stay in Chicago, which was our initial goal," the team said in a statement. "There is not a viable site in the city. As a result, the only sites under consideration are in Arlington Heights and Hammond."
 

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That Stadium is the best venue in the NFL in my opinion. During those playoff games last year? The capacity it holds, that stadium pops on tv too, unlike GAY So-Fi. Which only looks awesome on TV, when they have the outdoor drone shots.
 

MinnesotaFats

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Tremendous bluff job
It's not a bluff, the thread title is misleading. Chicago was out from day 1. The Bears want one of those huge mixed use development projects around the stadium and 20 years of tax breaks.

Arlington Heights or Hammond IN are the choices. Illinois can't get the votes for AH. Hammond proposal has already passed.

Pritzker, running for President, wants to delay the inevitable w Illinois failing, as long as he can. It'd look terrible if you lost the Chicago Bears to Indiana.
 

phillyflyers

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It's not a bluff, the thread title is misleading. Chicago was out from day 1. The Bears want one of those huge mixed use development projects around the stadium and 20 years of tax breaks.

Arlington Heights or Hammond IN are the choices. Illinois can't get the votes for AH. Hammond proposal has already passed.

Pritzker, running for President, wants to delay the inevitable w Illinois failing, as long as he can. It'd look terrible if you lost the Chicago Bears to Indiana.
It's just common sense.

Can't do business in a city with a Chimpanzee for a mayor where all they do is tax you to death.

Bears were right to give Chicago a middle finger.
 
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