(CHICAGO) — In a brief Q&A session with reporters after an event Monday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker suggested that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t have a complete plan to keep the Chicago Bears in the city.
“He has no plan. There’s no plan,” Pritzker said.
Lawmakers are working on a bill that would help facilitate the Bears move to Arlington Heights as Johnson continues to push a narrative that the NFL team must stay in Chicago.
“I know that the mayor has no plan. He has come up with no plan at all about how the Bears would end up in the city of Chicago. So, that’s problematic. I’d love them to be in the city, but we’re three years in now, and he still has no plan,” Pritzker said.
The mayor’s office responded, saying, in part, that “the City’s proposal remains the only plan centered on public ownership alongside a funding mechanism that does not burden property taxpayers while keeping the Bears in Chicago.”
Lawmakers have just two weeks left of the Spring legislative session. The Bears have also expressed interest in relocating to Hammond, Indiana.
