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The public push by the northwest Indiana city, which includes a website called BearStadiumDistrict.com, comes after state lawmakers introduced a framework for the development of a new stadium governing body and financing mechanism.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the debt “is not the core issue” in making a deal to keep the Bears in Illinois.
The team, which will return to Grand Park for the final time this summer, has held training camp in Westfield since 2018–except for in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An application for Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP was completed Wednesday with the Indiana Lobby Registration Commission, indicating the firm will represent CBFC Development LLC, an affiliate company for the NFL franchise.
Language introduced in the Indiana Senate on Thursday would create a stadium authority authorized to acquire land, finance capital improvements and enter into leases with private entities, including NFL teams.
Suddenly, the Illinois folks are optimistic, almost bubbly about prospects of finalizing an Arlington Heights deal.
The governor is expected to address the Bears situation during his speech Wednesday night, although the Governor’s Office is keeping specifics—and the names of the guests it has invited to the event—under wraps.
The incident occurred the night of June 22, 2025, when thousands of people were downtown to watch the broadcast of the championship game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Pacers.
Late last month, the Bears reportedly sent a drilling and testing crew to a site near Wolf Lake in Hammond.
“I think that they seriously are considering Indiana,” Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott said on Inside INdiana Business this week. “I really feel that way.” He cited the state’s property tax system as a key reason.
While Mayor Joe Hogsett remains optimistic at the prospect of bringing a professional soccer team to Indy, Senate Appropriations Committee chair Ryan Mishler told IBJ he’s less certain of a team’s long-term viability.
State legislators say they are waiting to hear more from the Bears before they can work on proposals to relocate the team to northwest Indiana.
Gov. Mike Braun has also said that the Bears “recognize Indiana’s pro-business climate,” and he is ready to work with the team to build a new stadium in the Hoosier State.
Reports this week say the Bears sent a team of trucks and drilling equipment to a location not far off the Indiana Toll Road to conduct site testing.
In an open letter on the team’s website, CEO Kevin Warren said the Bears will expand its search for a stadium site to a larger region that will include Indiana.
MLS plans have hit a snag, apparently over the city’s proposal for how to finance a stadium. On Thursday, the governor said he reviewed the city’s proposal, but deemed it financially infeasible.
The 44-year-old quarterback (and grandfather) last played an NFL game in 2021 and is eligible for the NFL Hall of Fame—so long as he isn’t promoted to an active roster.
The new leader succeeds Li Li Leung, who announced in June that she planned to step down at the end of the year.
According to the indictment unsealed Sunday, the highly-paid hurlers took several thousand dollars in payoffs to help two unnamed gamblers from their native Dominican Republic win at least $460,000 on in-game prop bets.
After missing the final five games last season because of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder that led him to contemplate suicide, the veteran lineman is thriving again.
