The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and and World Business Chicago are the only major civic organizations to back the Bears’ stadium plans.
Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren answers questions at a meeting of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce on June 4, 2024.
The chamber is backing the Bears’ plan. The group and World Business Chicago, an economic development group controlled by the mayor, are the only major civic organizations to do so. There are plentiful good reasons to oppose the project. But don’t take my word for it. Instead, listen to The chamber’s president, Jack Lavin, positioned the push for public funds as best as he could in remarks to reporters after the luncheon. He played up the need for infrastructure investment, which would improve access to the lakefront, and said economic activity from the new stadium would generate a return on public investment.
Instead, he peeled off platitudes about Chicago’s civic pride, yet with an odd rhetorical mix that also cast shade on the city: Chicago has only eight active construction cranes right now, he noted, whereas Toronto has more than 200. The city’s name is overlooked in “cities to watch” in surveys of economic development experts.
In standing against the Bears’ proposal so far, that’s precisely what the state leaders and the public are doing: They’re standing up for the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois, holding tight to public funds and deflecting a Bears proposal that does not yet offer enough public benefit.
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