The details of the deal revealed Thursday would set the annual tax on the Arlington Heights site at about $3.6 million, down from roughly $8.9 million levied for the 2023 tax year, officials said.
Chicago Bears officials have made a deal over how much property taxes need to be paid for Arlington Heights land.
The team is open to any alternative that would work, but officials have said previously that the former hospital site was unworkable because it’s next to Metra train tracks that pose a security risk.
Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren says the goal is to break ground in 2025 on construction of a new stadium on the Museum Campus.
A coalition of community groups has come together to oppose the Chicago Bears’ plans for a new lakefront stadium.
Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren continued to push for public financing despite ongoing skepticism from state officials.
The Bears will not question focus group participants about where the stadium should be constructed.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said getting a Bears stadium deal done this year is close to an impossibility and that the team has yet to make an acceptable proposal.
The governor’s office said the discussion with Bears CEO Kevin Warren was “cordial” but Pritzker’s “position has not changed.”
In a controversy arising in part from the Chicago Bears’ property tax dispute, a former worker at the Cook County tax appeal board has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that he was fired for refusing to take part in political in-fighting. Frank Calabrese was an assessment analyst and director of communications for Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele. In his federal suit, he claims that Steele fired him after he refused her orders over the Bears’ appeal, and after he took part in an investigation of her by the Cook County Office of the Independent Inspector General. Steele […]