{"id":39552,"date":"2026-06-01T15:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=39552"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:53:46","slug":"we-didnt-have-time-pritzker-leaders-defend-adjourning-without-bears-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/football\/39552-we-didnt-have-time-pritzker-leaders-defend-adjourning-without-bears-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Didn&#8217;t Have Time&#8217;: Pritzker, Leaders Defend Adjourning Without Bears Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senate President Don Harmon speaks at a morning news conference June 1. Harmon\u2019s chamber passed a Bears bill early Monday morning that the other chamber didn\u2019t take up.\u00a0 (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jenna Schweikert)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arlington Heights mayor disappointed by Springfield\u2019s inaction<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By BRENDEN MOORE &amp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BEN SZALINSKI<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:bmoore@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Article Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledged Monday that the Chicago Bears may be on their way to Indiana. But he and Democratic leaders defended their decision not to move a bill incentivizing them to stay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The leaders say they\u2019re ready to continue working on the issue throughout the summer. But its unclear when, if at all, they\u2019d return to the Capitol for a vote.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They made the comments at a news conference in the governor\u2019s office hours after the General Assembly adjourned the legislative session without a deal.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A last-minute pitch that passed the Senate would have allowed large municipalities in Cook County to compete to lure the team to a publicly owned stadium.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 Hours after Illinois lawmakers failed to approve a stadium incentives structure aimed at keeping the Chicago Bears in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledged that the \u201cpride and joy of Illinois\u201d may take a deal to build a football palace in Indiana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That said, Pritzker and the leaders of the House and Senate defended their processes and priorities at a news conference Monday morning, about five hours after they adjourned an all-night session. They told reporters that a combination of the late emergence of bill language in the Senate, along with their own red lines to not hand out taxpayer dollars to a football team valued at nearly $9 billion, kept it out of the end zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat might happen,\u201d Pritzker said of the team taking a stadium deal to build across the state line, where Hoosier lawmakers have pledged $1 billion in public subsidies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut the reality is: I wasn&#8217;t willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money in order to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team&#8230; as much emotional connection as many of us have to the Bears and to keeping them in the city of Chicago or the state of Illinois,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, Pritzker said he would work with House lawmakers over the summer on a stadium package and his \u201chope is that we&#8217;ll be able to provide something for the Bears.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker said a special session this summer would be up to the legislative leaders, though House Speaker Emanuel \u201cChris\u201d Welch, D-Hillside, told Capitol News Illinois early Monday morning that he wasn\u2019t considering it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018It came late\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A bipartisan vote on a hastily crafted bill in the Senate around 3:30 a.m. Monday morning gave late life to hopes the legislature would pass a bill giving the Bears property tax certainty. Unlike a long-discussed structure for a negotiated property tax payment on a privately owned stadium in Arlington Heights, the bill would have allowed five Cook County municipalities that have populations over 70,000 to set up a local stadium authority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This would have enabled the Bears to avoid paying property taxes altogether on a new stadium, whether it be on a site they currently own in Arlington Heights or in Chicago, where Mayor Brandon Johnson has fought to keep the team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the House adjourned about an hour later without taking up the bill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a late-arriving amendment, even in Springfield where lawmakers are accustomed to working through the night at the end of May each year. They\u2019re often up late awaiting thousand-page amendments to bills that have been negotiated for days or months.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in this instance, the language was essentially novel when it arrived on lawmakers\u2019 desks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI respect the Senate president\u2019s processes over there,\u201d Welch said. \u201cYou know, that\u2019s the legislative process \u2014 the sausage making. It came over late \u2026 we didn\u2019t have time to digest it. We didn\u2019t have time to find out what other folks thought of it. We need to have some feedback from our members before asking them to vote for it on the floor, particularly in the wee morning hours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, said he felt both chambers worked well together throughout the session, even on issues beyond the Bears, but lawmakers ultimately had \u201cno appetite\u201d to provide public funding for the team, despite many being Bears fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker added that neither he nor his staff read the 145-page bill because \u201cit came late.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThings happen, and we had a whole lot of things that were foisted upon the state that they were dealing with yesterday,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cBut indeed, the speaker is going to work hard to make sure that the House is making progress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018A fumble\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposal was a drastic pivot from the PILOT concept discussed for more than three years. Instead, the structure mimics the mechanics of most modern stadium deals, including the offer the Bears have on the table from Indiana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This switch-up seemed to come as a surprise to two of the entities it would impact the most: the village of Arlington Heights and the Bears.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arlington Heights Mayor Jim Tinaglia blasted the legislature\u2019s inaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Village of Arlington Heights has spent the past five years working diligently to prepare for the redevelopment of Arlington Park,\u201d Tinaglia said in a statement. \u201cWe are truly disappointed with the outcome from the spring legislative session yet again. Although we recognize that these discussions are complex and involve many stakeholders, this is clearly a fumble for the State of Illinois.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minutes after he filed the bill Sunday evening, Sen. Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago, the Senate\u2019s lead negotiator on the stadium issue, told reporters that the Bears \u201care now just seeing it\u201d and that he was \u201clooking forward to hearing their response.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement after the House adjourned Friday morning, the Bears did not address the merits of the Senate bill but reiterated that they \u201cremain on the late spring\/early summer timeline\u201d to decide on their future home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reporters quizzed Pritzker later Monday about how much he was involved in negotiations on the bill. He received criticism from some lawmakers and observers for a far more hands-off approach to this year\u2019s legislative session in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the governor said he has been intimately involved throughout the process, including several meetings in his Capitol office \u201cthroughout the weekend,\u201d he didn\u2019t want to give the Bears special treatment. And seeking \u201cto table set,\u201d Pritzker said the stadium issue was not the most important thing on lawmakers\u2019 agenda, but rather \u201cworking to survive\u201d President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLiterally, billions of dollars have been taken away from people in our state,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cWe&#8217;ve seen these massive tariffs that are affecting people at the grocery store, when they go buy a car, everything else in their lives. Costs are going up, and then we&#8217;ve got this war that&#8217;s raised the cost of gasoline for everybody&#8230; We&#8217;re trying to defend the working families of Illinois.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018Still time\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The House sponsor of the legislation, Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, said in a statement the House\u2019s decision not to take up the issue is \u201cthe reality of trying to move something of this size.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere is still time to answer questions, refine concepts, build consensus, and continue discussions with the Bears and all the stakeholders involved\u201d he said. \u201cThe legislative pathway remains open.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement Monday that he is \u201cgrateful\u201d senators passed a bill that would give the city a chance to retain the team and that the city already has a publicly owned site managed by the framework in the Senate\u2019s legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile questions remained about the legislation\u2019s design, legislators ultimately reached the same conclusion the City reached in 2024: the strongest proposal for a new stadium centers public ownership, the use of a sports authority and a commitment to public infrastructure,\u201d Johnson said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the Senate bill, a municipal stadium authority would have the power to issue revenue bonds to fund stadium construction that can be backed through local tax revenue along with private contributions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bears have pledged to finance an Illinois project privately and Pritzker and state lawmakers have long ruled out state subsidies for direct stadium construction. That said, the provision would open the door for local governments to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker said \u201cthat is a choice that people at the local level can make if they want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor example, Arlington Heights and Chicago want to compete in order to have a stadium, and you may recall that the mayor of Chicago held a big press conference with the Bears announcing a $2.5 billion stadium that he had no money to pay for,\u201d Pritzker said, referring to a 2024 plan for a public lakefront stadium that would have required $800 million in state-backed bonds for stadium construction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo somehow that was going to have to get paid for,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cAnd that&#8217;s not something I was willing to do and, indeed, the amount of money that the state is willing to put up is money that we would put up for a business in the state of Illinois for infrastructure alone, not building a stadium.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for the megaprojects tool nixed by the Senate: \u201cWe still need that, by the way,\u201d Pritzker said, reiterating his charge that Illinois is \u201cbehind the curve\u201d given how 38 other states have a statewide mechanism for large developers to negotiate property taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey&#8217;ve always been negotiating about property taxes all across the country,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cIt&#8217;s just in Illinois where we have had a disorganized, dysfunctional endeavor forever, and now we&#8217;re trying to organize it and make it work, so that businesses will want to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. 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