The Chicago Bears didn’t get the answer they were hoping for in Springfield over the weekend as the Illinois legislature failed to pass a bill aiming to keep the team in the state. So what’s next for the team and the state?
It appears the saga is not yet over.
Here’s what to expect:
The fate of the bill
Gone is the earlier PILOT concept, which would have given the Bears the ability to negotiate a payment in lieu of property taxes – potentially saving the team upwards of a billion dollars. That plan effectively died due to the strong opposition of some Democratic state senators from Chicago.
At around 4 a.m. Monday, the Illinois Senate voted 37-17 to approve a modified bill that would enable certain Cook County municipalities to create local stadium authorities. The House, however, did not take up a vote on the bill and the legislative session adjourned.
A special session could still be called, but it was not immediately clear if or when that could happen.
“There’s a lot of work still ahead of us,” House Speaker Emmanuel “Chris” Welch said. “We’ll continue discussions on a number of issues, including our approach to the Bears stadium question, this summer.”
But the bar for finalizing an agreement for the Bears is now higher.
That’s because after the spring session the threshold for bill passage rises from a simple majority to a three-fifths majority under the Illinois Constitution. That would require 71 votes for a bill to pass in the House and 36 in the Senate.
See what’s in the modified bill here.
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