Let Me Tell You Something: Did the Chicago Bears Just Get Rejected by Illinois on a Stadium Deal?
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal from Peshtigo has been sitting on this story for two days. He tried to be a bigger person. He failed. And he feels absolutely fantastic about it.
The Chicago Bears — a franchise with 105 years of history in the city of Chicago — may be packing up and moving to Hammond, Indiana because the Illinois state legislature couldn't pass a property tax bill. Sal breaks down the full, glorious, historic collapse of this situation and he is not holding back.
- How does a franchise that already OWNS 326 acres in Arlington Heights end up in a different state? Sal walks through every step of Springfield's stunning failure to show up
- Indiana passed their stadium bill 24-0 in February. Governor Braun signed it before the month was out. Illinois canceled a hearing and checked their phones
- The Bears are still paying off the 2003 Soldier Field renovation — over half a billion dollars — on a building they can't wait to leave
- The Packers angle: while Chicago spends six years arguing about ZIP codes, Green Bay is quietly building something real around Jordan Love — and nobody is moving a community-owned team anywhere
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you some, Pact Nation. |
| 0:12.8 | I had been sitting on this story for two days, two full days. |
| 0:16.9 | I tried to be a bigger person. |
| 0:18.8 | I tried to find it in myself to look at this with some class, |
| 0:21.7 | some maturity, some basic human decency. I failed. I failed completely and I feel absolutely |
| 0:28.9 | fantastic about it. The Chicago Bears, the franchise that has played in that city since 1921, |
| 0:36.2 | have spent six years, six years searching for a new |
| 0:41.6 | stadium, and the answer they have landed on is Indiana. Indiana, not a gleaming dome in the |
| 0:50.6 | city of Chicago, not a modern facility in Arlington Heights, which is still, last time I |
| 0:56.3 | checked, located in the state of Illinois, Hammond, Indiana, Wolf Lake, Northwest Indiana, |
| 1:05.0 | right across the state line. The Chicago Bears, Pac Nation, I am saying the name slowly, because I need you to feel it. The Chicago Bears, Pac Nation, I am saying the name slowly because I need you to feel it. |
| 1:14.6 | The Chicago Bears potentially playing their home games in a different state because the Illinois legislature cannot pass a property tax bill. |
| 1:26.6 | Stay with me. |
| 1:28.3 | I need you to understand the full scope of this. |
| 1:31.3 | The state of Illinois, a state that is historically, documentably, |
| 1:36.9 | almost impressively bad at fiscal responsibility, |
| 1:41.3 | looked at an NFL franchise and said, |
| 1:43.6 | we are going to pass. |
| 1:46.0 | We would rather elect the team leave than handle the paperwork. |
| 1:51.0 | Illinois said no to a sports deal. |
| 1:54.0 | Illinois, a state that spent years running a racetrack on public incentives until it fell apart anyway. |
| 2:02.6 | That state, that one, looked at the Chicago Bears and said, you know what? |
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