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Hey, I could be wrong! But none of those things Lightfoot offered are really possible. The Park District has contracts with two sports teams ;) The one that
by Kon-Peki 4y ago
Hey, I could be wrong!
But none of those things Lightfoot offered are really possible. The Park District has contracts with two sports teams ;) The one that would get the short end of any changes is owned by a person [1] that is probably wealthier, lives in the city, has his business in the city, has moved everything that the team does to inside the city, etc. While the Bears do everything in the suburbs except play.
The Bears are going to get state subsidies to build out Arlington Park, you should probably prepare yourself for that. Oh, and the long-stalled extension of IL-53 will probably get built so there is a direct route from Lake Forest.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mansueto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mansueto
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoYou sound better informed than myself, so you might be onto simmering. I have no skin in the outcome, but the entire fight felt like nothing more than a squeeze to get money out of Chicago. Except Lightfoot was not going to blink. Personally, I am strongly against public subsidies of private billion dollar sports clubs. The analyses I have seen is that, at best, a city will break even on the extra revenue vs stadium+extra expenses.