Bears explore move to Northwest Indiana, claiming lack of urgency from Illinois leaders

CBS News ^ | Dec. 18, 2024

[MinorityRepublican]

The team said they are not asking for state taxpayer dollars, but are still seeking a commitment to local infrastructure and reasonable property tax certainty.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: bears; chicago; chicagobears; corporatewelfare; democratcorruption; democratincompetence; illinois; indiana; nationalfaggotleague; nationalfelonleague; nfl; nflpa; traitorswatchnfl

[brownsfan]

“Chicago has lost it’s mind.”

[xp38]

Da Bears!

[KarlInOhio]

The Gary Bears. Change the wishbone C to a G.

[Beowulf9]

I’m thinking ‘bears’ here and wondering why Illinois should feel urgent?

🐻

[glorgau]

Another set of billionaires looking for taxpayer handouts.

[Ex-Con777]

I flew a couple of Bears charters. Virginia McCaskey would always come to say hi and chat for a while. What a truly lovable woman.

Once, while transiting the Ohare B gates, Ginny was sitting alone and waved to me. We sat and chatted for about 5 minutes. The fact that she remembered me by name was astonishing. It brightened up a typical gloomy Chicago day.

EC

[dangus]

Oddly, unless the paper means to say that individual team members are independently researching a move to Indiana, this is bad grammar.

“Bears explores move.”

(As it was, it took me to the second half of the sentence to realize this wasn’t about wildlife returning to Indiana.)

I know this looks wrong, but we’re just so use to this error that we don’t see it. But ask yourselves, would you say that the United States of America are the greatest nation? If you say, “no, it is the greatest nation,” you see my point. If you say, “no, they comprise the greatest nation,” congratulations. You’re my kind of conservative.

[rktman]

Polar, brown, grizzly, black?

[Doctor Congo]

The Northwest Indiana Bears.

[dangus]

*I know it’s “used to” not “use to.” That’s a typo, or a miscommunication between my head and my fingers.

[Dr. Franklin]

Oddly, unless the paper means to say that individual team members are independently researching a move to Indiana, this is bad grammar.
“Bears explores move.”
(As it was, it took me to the second half of the sentence to realize this wasn’t about wildlife returning to Indiana.)
I know this looks wrong, but we’re just so use to this error that we don’t see it. But ask yourselves, would you say that the United States of America are the greatest nation? If you say, “no, it is the greatest nation,” you see my point. If you say, “no, they comprise the greatest nation,” congratulations. You’re my kind of conservative.

In modern British English the use of a plural verb with a collective noun is perfectly acceptable. So, it's OK for them to write, "My family are moving". In American English the only collective noun we commonly do that with is "police", e.g., "Police are looking for the suspect". Frequently, the wire services employ those who do not know American rules of grammar, especially people from the Indian subcontinent who learn British English. It gets annoying.

[aynrandfreak]

He was a Gary Bear, He was a scary bear...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yeah. Move to Gary, Indiana. That would be a step up.

[BenLurkin]

The Chicago Bears of Anaheim

[Uncle Miltie]

“I don’t understand.”

“Why are we going to Northwest Indiana again?”

[alternatives?]

Nowdays the best you can hope for is we speaka english.

[blackdog]

First decent team in 20 years sure brings some clarity and chutzpah, too.

[blackdog]

If a Bear $hits on Chicago, does anyone care?

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

A move to Gary is being considered to help revitalise the former steel town. The team would move the entire offices lock, stock, and barrel to Indiana to avoid Cook County taxes and Illinois’ income tax. The players would take advantage of a far better economic policy in Indiana over that of a Chicago city-state.