RELATED: Pritzker blasts Johnson’s push to keep Bears in Chicago: ‘The mayor has no plan’<\/a><\/p>\nIf it’s not there, they will pursue the offer from Indiana to build a stadium in Hammond.<\/p>\n
As lawmakers consider a so-called megaprojects bill that would give the Bears a property tax break on a new stadium in Arlington Heights the Governor Pritzker expressed frustration at Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago push<\/p>\n
“I know that the mayor has no plan. He has come up with no plan at all about how the Bears would end up in the city of Chicago. So, that’s problematic. I’d love them to be in the city, but we’re three years in now, and he still has no plan,” Pritzker said.<\/p>\n
The mayor’s office responding in part saying:<\/p>\n
“The City’s proposal remains the only plan centered on public ownership alongside a funding mechanism that does not burden property taxpayers while keeping the Bears in Chicago.”<\/p>\n
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