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Bears explore move to Northwest Indiana, claiming lack of urgency from Illinois leaders
CBS News ^ | Dec. 18, 2024

Posted on 12/18/2025 6:53:20 AM PST by 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
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To: rktman

Mostly black.......A few brown.........Very few white............


41 posted on 12/18/2025 8:00:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Move back to Decatur, Illinois, where they started as the Decatur Staleys.


42 posted on 12/18/2025 8:01:15 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: jmcenanly

I’ve been to one game at Wrigley...when I was 12. It was the Giants on a dreary cold April day with only a few thousand in the stands. Leo Durocher was the manager and the Cubs pitcher was getting hammered. Leo came out of the dugout to pull the pitcher and I swear 4,000 beer bottles came from the stands aimed at the mound! I still remember..60 years later.


43 posted on 12/18/2025 8:02:55 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Gary is just another neighborhood in the City of Chicago.
Hegewisch, Back-of-Yards, Gary.
Same, same.


44 posted on 12/18/2025 8:13:11 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: 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.

I don’t see a downside here. Not the first team to move to a different state while claiming to be from the orginal state.

I suspect beside the tax savings, the land acquistion in Gary will be far cheaper and larger tracts would be available to control.

Also they would be nuts to let this be made public without getting control of the parcels they are looking at. Otherwise land prices in Gary just doubled.


45 posted on 12/18/2025 8:18:03 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: MinorityRepublican

would that then mean that Indiana had TWO NFL teams?


46 posted on 12/18/2025 8:19:03 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Dr. Sivana

Decatur. Ha!


47 posted on 12/18/2025 8:27:46 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)T)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The way Chicongo is going, I don’t blame the bears one bit for wanting to move.


48 posted on 12/18/2025 8:28:28 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Reily

“Gary Indiana”, as sung by a very young Ron Howard in The Music Man.


49 posted on 12/18/2025 8:29:56 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)T)
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To: Reily; Gay State Conservative
You guys might be thinking of little Ron Howard in Music Man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihLS-jA_Dg

50 posted on 12/18/2025 8:30:23 AM PST by spankalib
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To: The Louiswu

1060 west Addison?


51 posted on 12/18/2025 8:33:48 AM PST by Jeff Vader
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To: Ex-Con777
WOW. Great story. I've always been an admirer of GSH. Did you know he was a 2-sport athlete?

I would have loved to hear some of the stories he (and his lovely daughter) could tell!

You should read his autobiography. Halas was one of the greats, imo.

52 posted on 12/18/2025 8:35:14 AM PST by spankalib
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To: ChronicMA

And the Dallas Cowboys have not played in Dallas for nearly 60 years.


53 posted on 12/18/2025 8:36:20 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! I’m )
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To: Jeff Vader; SaveFerris

54 posted on 12/18/2025 8:37:39 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dangus
would you say that the United States of America are the greatest nation?

No.

I would say that these United States of America are the greatest nation.

55 posted on 12/18/2025 8:41:01 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Reily
Much older then that tune. I vaguely remember a movie on TV where it was being sung by actresses wearing (actually a Gay 90s tune!) in Victorian style dresses and carrying parasols.

"The Music Man" with Robert Preston, a young - and very lovely - Shirley Jones, and an even younger Ronnie Howard.

56 posted on 12/18/2025 8:42:14 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: No name given
The way Chicongo is going, I don’t blame the bears one bit for wanting to move.

Even if they have to pay to build a stadium in Indiana, they are better off doing that.

57 posted on 12/18/2025 8:43:54 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: niteowl77
O-ho the Wellth Fffargo Wagon ith a-comin' now,
I don't know how I can ever wait to thee.
It could be thumpin' for thumone who ith
No relathion but it could be thump'n thpethyul
Jutht for me!
58 posted on 12/18/2025 8:49:37 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
Other teams already take knees and spit on Americans from states other than their "home" state.

The Washington Commanderskins play in Maryland, not Washington D.C, while the New York Jets and the New York Giants play in New Jersey, not New York.

59 posted on 12/18/2025 8:58:19 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Dr. Franklin

And maybe those reporters do think it’s about wildlife?


60 posted on 12/18/2025 9:19:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
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