Bears Stadium Update: Illinois Pivoting to Bears-Only Bill Now?

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In the final four days to push a stadium deal across the Illinois legislative floor, is Illinois now pivoting to a Bears-only bill as opposed to a mega-projects deal? Adam Hoge has the latest as the urgency intensifies with Kevin Warren, George McCaskey and the Chicago Bears running short on time if Arlington Heights hopes to lure the team away from Hammond, Indiana. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	It is a beautiful day for Bears OTAs and we are going to have plenty of coverage on the Bears
0:06.1	practice at House Hall. But stadium news continuing to trickle in, really more developments as
0:12.3	they try to figure this thing out. Wanted to get some stadium thoughts out for you today as well.
0:17.7	In this CHGO Bears mini pod, of course, I'm Adam Hogue. So a couple of things.
0:24.3	One is four days left in the legislative session, including today. And now we have state
0:31.0	Senator Robert Peters from Chicago whose district includes Soldier Field telling our guy, Brendan Moore
0:37.2	from the Capitol news
0:38.4	quote the bears throughout all of this have been hard to trust with the games that they've
0:45.2	played you're negotiating with people who have done a terrible job negotiating ouch um
0:52.2	look a lot of that is noise.
0:55.9	I think we can all agree.
0:57.5	Most people in all this can agree that both sides have made plenty of mistakes throughout
1:02.1	this entire saga.
1:03.7	And I mean, it's still lingering and part of the issue of them coming together and
1:08.6	figuring this all out.
1:09.7	But with four days to go,
1:12.7	a lot of that is all just noise at this point. The part that I do think is relevant this morning
1:18.2	and it started this development started later in the day on Wednesday is now this idea and it
1:25.6	started with a Cranes's a report from cranes
1:28.2	saying that the lawmakers here
1:31.3	might need to pivot off the mega projects bill
1:34.5	and make this more of a bears only bill
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