{"id":1043295,"date":"2026-09-04T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1043295\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:35:15","slug":"state-week-the-chicago-bears-stadium-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1043295\/","title":{"rendered":"State Week: The Chicago Bears stadium saga continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the NFL season prepares to kick off, a big question for Chicago Bears&#8217; fans is about the team&#8217;s future.  Specifically, where will the Bears play in coming years.  The team wants a new stadium after more than a half-century at Soldier Field.  <\/p>\n<p>The Bears have apparently narrowed their focus to sites in Arlington Heights, which it owns,  and Hammond, Indiana.  Team officials have pushed for a property tax deal to stay in Illinois.  Indiana lawmakers have given the go-ahead for incentives to lure the Bears.  <\/p>\n<p>But after years of discussion and negotiation, the matter is unresolved.  On this episode, we try to provide some clarity.  <\/p>\n<p>We also discuss a major power outages in northwest Indiana that stemmed from an August storm.  it left thousands without electricity for a long period. <\/p>\n<p>We also learn about a Chicago Sun-Times\/WBEZ report that examined arrest records related to Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago.  <\/p>\n<p>Host Sean Crawford is joined by Professor Emeritus Charlie Wheeler and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/author\/michael-puente\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBEZ reporter and anchor Michael Puente. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the NFL season prepares to kick off, a big question for Chicago Bears&#8217; fans is about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1043296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":["post-1043295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117213982035019825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}