EMERGENCY POD: Chicago Bears Move Closer to Stadium Deal in Indiana | CHGO Bears
CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an emergency edition of the C.HCO Bears podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | We are presented by Xfinity. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome in in a busy morning with the Chicago Bears, the state of Indiana, the state of Illinois, a lot of things |
| 0:22.8 | coming together. And a Bears move to Indiana appears closer to reality, potentially even at the |
| 0:31.6 | goal line. Welcome in. I'm Adam Hogue. Adam Johns is here. Greg Braggs Jr., representing the state of Indiana, is here. |
| 0:40.3 | And Mark Carman representing the state of California, actually, |
| 0:43.5 | on his vacation in San Diego is joining us as well. |
| 0:47.2 | Well, I listen, I couldn't miss this one. |
| 0:50.6 | I am nauseous that I'm having to do this one, like emergency pod. |
| 0:54.0 | I'd call this a nightmare pod because it feels awful close. So thank you for letting me pop in here for a couple of minutes in the middle of my vacation, which is ending prematurely. But we won't talk about that. Regardless of that, Hoag, can you just get us up to date on why we're sitting here right now, please, because I just want to make sure that I |
| 1:11.1 | understand everything that's happening. Yeah, it's pretty wild. What's transpired. You know, |
| 1:15.4 | we did a show yesterday and CSGO Bears where I, you know, I told you guys over the next 24, 48 |
| 1:21.4 | hours, something was going to happen here, either swinging towards back towards Illinois or all the way |
| 1:26.8 | to Indiana because there were meetings |
| 1:29.1 | yesterday between the Bears and the governor's office. Then there was this committee hearing, |
| 1:34.3 | this finance committee hearing in, I'm talking about Illinois now that was on the schedule |
| 1:38.2 | for 8 a.m. today. And this mega project bill that was supposed to get the Bears to tax |
| 1:43.2 | certainty they're looking |
| 1:44.7 | for in Arlington Heights was on the agenda. But as I reported, was not guaranteed to be called on. |
| 1:50.6 | I woke up this morning to information that the bill was not going to be called on shortly followed |
| 1:56.7 | by this committee hearing altogether was canceled, not even happening. |
| 2:02.6 | Just minutes later, we realize that there's this ways, what is it the ways and |
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