{"id":344083,"date":"2025-10-30T21:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/344083\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:52:14","slug":"bears-offer-chicago-25-million-as-they-push-to-leave-for-arlington-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/344083\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears offer Chicago $25 million as they push to leave for Arlington Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bears <\/p>\n

CHICAGO<\/strong> – If the Bears<\/a> exit Chicago<\/a>, they plan to drop $25 million in the city’s lap, as part of a push to smooth their path out of town.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

The Bears are making the multi-million dollar offer to benefit Chicago as the team lobbies lawmakers for approval to move to Arlington Heights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Proposal details were revealed in a letter obtained by Crain\u2019s Chicago Business<\/a>, and comes as the team faces strong opposition in Springfield.<\/p>\n

The one-time payment would go toward projects selected by city leaders, possibly including maintenance at Soldier Field or helping cover the city\u2019s existing stadium debt.<\/p>\n

The team also promises $250,000 every year starting in 2028 to help rebuild parks and playing fields in under-resourced neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The other side:<\/p>\n

But critics, including Rep. Kam Buckner, say the Bears shouldn\u2019t get special treatment, especially while taxpayers are still paying off more than half a billion dollars in debt tied to Soldier Field\u2019s 2003 renovation.<\/p>\n

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker<\/a> has hinted he may block any deal that benefits stadium projects.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> This story was reported by Fox 32 Chicago, and contains details from Crain’s Chicago Business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bears<\/a>Arlington Heights<\/a>News<\/a>J.B. Pritzker<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO – If the Bears exit Chicago, they plan to drop $25 million in the city’s lap, as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":344084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[11438,10809,960,5404,5386,1818,12084,50,1232,3546,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-344083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-arlington-heights","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-cook-county","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-jb-pritzker","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-people","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115465339446815888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344083","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=344083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}