Chicago Bears President Warren says team seeks ‘legitimate partner’ in picking site for new stadium. Would that be Arlington Heights? Maybe.
At the time, Johnson said he and Bears brass had discussed their “shared commitment to Chicago,” adding “we want to make sure we can keep shuffling here in the city of Chicago with the Bears.”Asked what kind of contribution an average Arlington Heights resident could expect to make in taxes, Warren said “those are questions I would ask their local political leaders.”
Warren said the team would move ahead with those studies once the organization was certain it would be moving to Arlington Heights.Michael Mach and Lynne Park, of Schaumburg, said they attended the meeting Monday night to see what local business leaders had to say about the project. Former Arlington Heights Trustee John Scaletta, who retired from the Village Board in May, said his takeaway from the meeting was that the Bears were still “very interested” in Arlington Heights.
He said he was left wanting to know “what the Bears were really looking for” from local government bodies. It also struck him that the team hadn’t yet thought in detail about how a potential development wouldDuring the meeting, Warren had said he would be “ecstatic” about the prospect of the team’s relocation if he were a local business owner and mentioned the idea of spectators being able to walk to events.
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