Articles filed under Arlington Park
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Warren: Bears not ready to sell Arlington Park or minority stake in teamJun 11, 2024 7:36 pm - The McCaskey family isn’t considering selling a minority stake in the team to free up cash to get a Bears stadium deal done in Chicago.They’re also not ready to put their 326-acre Arlington Heights property — initially envisioned to be home of the team’s new domed structure — up for sale.
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‘Aurora is here waiting’: Mayor renews Bears stadium pitchJun 10, 2024 7:42 pm - Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin thinks the Bears could move to “the City of Lights” without the same tax, legal and political hurdles the team is facing elsewhere.
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Jim O’Donnell: Among the May daze, the Bears to AP won’t go away — but will Caleb mania?May 18, 2024 2:48 pm - WHILE ANXIOUSLY WAITING to move on from the 100-1 win bet on Akshay Bhatia — who didn't make the cut at this weekend's PGA Championship — a merry mid-May roundup of s...
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‘It won’t sit fallow’: Rolling Meadows forges ahead with zoning review near Arlington ParkMay 17, 2024 6:00 am - Despite the uncertainty over the future of the Chicago Bears at Arlington Park, officials in nearby Rolling Meadows are still proceeding with planning and zoning studies ...
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Unlikely allies? Suburban mayor, GOP legislator backs Bears’ lakefront planMay 13, 2024 7:26 pm - The governor of Illinois and top leaders in both chambers of the state legislature have thrown cold water on the Bears’ request for public subsidies to develop a new Chicago lakefront stadium. But the plan has a key supporter who wields influence in the Northwest suburbs, city of Chicago and hallways of the state Capitol in Springfield: Brad Stephens.
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Last billboards in Arlington Heights — other than one owned by Bears — to come downMay 07, 2024 7:33 pm - With approvals due to expire next month for the Bears’ revenue-generating billboard at Arlington Park, Arlington Heights village board members this week told a small-busi...
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From promises of no new taxes to Burnham, Bears’ latest stadium presentation sounded familiarMay 04, 2024 11:45 am - As Chicago Bears executives last week presented glossy renderings and extolled the virtues of building a new stadium on the city’s lakefront, one could hear echoes of sim...
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Pritzker: Bears lakefront stadium proposal still ‘a non-starter’May 01, 2024 6:00 pm - Gov. J.B. Pritzker cast more doubt Wednesday on the Chicago Bears’ proposal to build a nearly $5 billion lakefront stadium, just hours after two of his top staff members ...
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‘A different philosophy’: Bears’ original goal to own stadium shifts with latest public-private plansApr 25, 2024 6:47 pm - New Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren’s stated desire to build a publicly owned stadium on the Chicago lakefront marks an organizational shift in philosophy fr...
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Bears to unveil plans for domed stadium on lakefront WednesdayApr 22, 2024 6:28 pm - The Bears will unveil plans for a new enclosed stadium on the Chicago lakefront during a news conference Wednesday at Soldier Field, the team announced Monday. According ...