Editor’s Note: The Village of Arlington Heights is holding a press conference to “Keep the Bears in Illinois” Friday morning. It will stream in the player above once it begins.
Two days before the Chicago Bears are set to play the Los Angeles Rams at Soldier Field, Arlington Heights officials are making their most urgent push yet to bring the Bears’ stadium to the village, after the team’s surprise announcement last month that it was considering other locations, including northwest Indiana.
“We are in a clutch situation, and what we do right now will determine what comes next for Illinois,” Arlington Heights Mayor Jim Tinaglia wrote in a letter Friday to state lawmakers. “The team has been clear that at this point their choices are either the Arlington Heights site or Indiana.”
The purpose of the letter was to urge the Illinois General Assembly to pass a “mega projects” bill, which would grant major tax breaks to developers and companies to help facilitate large-scale developments. Tinaglia reiterated that the team is not asking for taxpayer money to build a new stadium at the site of the former Arlington Park racetrack. Instead, the Bears would invest their own money to build a new $5 billion stadium, next to a new mixed-use entertainment district. The team would work directly with taxing bodies, including schools, to set taxing structures. The mayor said all three affected local school districts are in favor of a new mega projects bill.
“This would be the largest private development project in the history of Illinois,” he wrote.
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