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I think they are trying to bluff....I think Arlington Heights is still the plan...
The school districts are being greedy.
The school districts are being greedy.
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I agree, the Bears are playing the game.
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It is going to be ideal when the Bears first game in their new stadium (The Fishbowl) is covered by a national Game of the Week audience where it seems like the Bears created statues of past Bear greats outside the stadium, only to discover that those 'statues' are actually victims with cement shoes of Al Capone.
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Wasn't that his brother Michael?
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So, are you thinking that Chicago will throw in Gary, Indiana to sweeten the deal?
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There is still time. All the AH city council members can be voted out before a decision is made.
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Arlington Heights is fully within Cook County and surrounded by cities still within same.
I suspect this is about the property tax fight going on at the track sight. They're $100M/yr apart right now. This could just be a tactic to get the burb to relent.
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This isn’t simply about building a new stadium. It’s about the Bears owning an extensive real estate development with a stadium at its core. It’s Kroenke 2.0, even down to using a race track property as the development space. That type of real estate development isn't happening down in Chicago, where public property is involved, nor in any of the other mentioned suburban locations, where there’s not enough open land.
The difference in assessed value that’s being argued about is enough to fight over, but not enough to kill the project. In the end, it will be Arlington Heights, simply because there are no alternatives that will give the Bears what they really want…
The difference in assessed value that’s being argued about is enough to fight over, but not enough to kill the project. In the end, it will be Arlington Heights, simply because there are no alternatives that will give the Bears what they really want…
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Yea..I heard about that...the problem for me is, I also heard to get a ticket to a Bear game there, one has to be a certified Scuba Diver....any truth to this?Underwater stadium now that's something.
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I think I know that guy.....he's the one always hanging around the water cooler, right?
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I,uh, were gonna need a bigger boat.
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School districts being greedy? Who would of ever thunk it?
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Yeah they need more money to pay their superintendents 350,000 dollars a year instead of the measly 250K they make now. Teachers can still buy their own classroom supplies with their own money That 60k salary is fine.
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This is so Bears.
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100 percent. This is about creating an entertainment experience, not a stadium. They want to arrive in the 21st century. They want SoFi. They want AT&T. This is a sports megaplex, casino, family entertainment venue, and, yes, stadium, all in one.
That ain’t happening in Chicago. Lots of backwards-thinking people don’t understand the scope or the game. They still think this is about a 100-yard patch of grass.
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I haven't been through Gary in years (now take I57 instead of I65 to get south) but wouldn't say I remember it as a premium location although I think the steel mills are mostly gone so maybe it has been revitalized.
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Any modern NFL franchise would want this. The problem is the Bears are not a modern NFL franchise and they almost, without exception, think small. The AH site can provide so much more of a complete entertainment experience than the lakefront site.
The one thing that gives me hope for the AH site is the complex you describe above will bring in the most $$$, more than what can be built in Chicago. The McCaskey's love their $$$ and so I think they'll make the right move and eventually build in AH.
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It seems I should have used green text.
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I tend to agree. They can recoup the $$'s they spent for the land, but they could build a true destination site in
Arlington Hgts. Lots of money to be mad for all the stuff surrounding the stadium.