As the Chicago Bears shift their focus, now hoping to build a new stadium on the city’s lakefront, the move raises questions about how the White Sox come into…
The timing of the Bears' announcement was just a few weeks after White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf traveled to Springfield to meet with legislative leaders and ask for a billion dollars for a new stadiumAs the Chicago Bears shift their focus, now hoping to build a new stadium on the city’s lakefront, the move raises questions about how the White Sox come into play, particularly as both teams seek taxpayer funding for their respective projects.
“There’s really no question that some of this timing had to do with Jerry Reinsdorf coming forward with plans for a new stadium for the White Sox,” sports and stadium consultant Marc Ganis said. “He is looking for state legislation and there’s only so much money there, so if the Bears were going to try and tap into some of that funding, they needed to get on the docket and not waste any time.”
As Reinsdorf visited the state Capitol, lawmakers directed the two teams to present their requests for public dollars together, as one unified proposal.Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker late last month confirmed that effort but cast some doubt on the appetite for funding either development. "Lots of great pictures and things that I think are exciting, and I would love to see new stadiums, I’m just not sure that the taxpayers are going to get what they deserve out of that investment with their dollars,” he added.
Complicating both teams’ ask for public funding is the fact that taxpayers still owe millions of dollars on their current homes. “We are literally at the throwing spaghetti against the wall stage of all of this conversation about stadiums, two.
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