Arlington Heights offer Bears Tax Cuts for Stadium

LOL.  But I do like this guy.  The more I see of him the more respect I have for him as the new President/CEO.

You haven't heard the latest from my neighborhood (I live just a couple of miles from the old racetrack).  There is a move in the Illinois State House to help out the City of Chicago get the Bears to stay somewhere near downtown.  part of the plan is a swap for the land already purchased by the Bears (the old racetrack) for the land on the city that would be given to the Bears to get them to stay.  Then the state would use the land to develop housing for lower income folks.

I saw this as a post on the Nextdoor site for my neighborhood.  It was beautiful!! All those NIMBY SOBs were freaking out.  How dare the state move welfare recipients next door to my $800k house!!  I was having field day posting that if they had just played nice in the sandbox with regards to the assessed value of the land during construction.  I'd post a link to the discussion but the mods on Nextdoor shut it down and eventually deleted the whole thread.  After only 3 hours it had something like 600 responses.

I had a feeling that Warren was a ruthless and cold-hearted bastard.  But if this is his work, it is really something special.  You can find some mention of the housing option if you search the name for a State Representative from Arlington Heights, Mark Walker in the news postings.  

He baited them into finally moving off of their tax stance. It was a stupid position anyway. He is a masterbaiter

No, still negotiating for more money to be sent. He is a tough negotiator. He is having a low income housing center built in my back yard. I still don't know how he got past the gate