Yeah, it's up there with the Garden and Wrigley as one of the most transit-intensive sports venues in the country. I can only imagine how bad they gouge people.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Bears make big additions to legal team in continued push for new lakefront stadium
The Chicago Bears have hired political veteran Andrea Zopp to serve as a senior adviser on their legal team.

The Chicago Bears have tapped Andrea Zopp, an established leader in the world of Chicago business and politics, to serve as an adviser in the team’s continued push for a new lakefront stadium.

Zopp, most recently a managing partner at venture capital firm Cleveland Avenue, will join the Bears as a senior adviser of legal and business affairs.

Zopp was not the only strategic hire made this week, as the team also announced Krista Whitaker as the club's new executive vice president of legal and business affairs and chief legal officer.

"We are thrilled to welcome both Krista and Andy to the Chicago Bears family," Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren said in a statement released by the team. "Their combined expertise and dedication to excellence will be invaluable as we navigate complex legal issues, develop innovative programs and drive strategic initiatives, including the development of a new Chicago Bears stadium.”

Zopp was not made available for an interview Thursday as she had not yet been brought up to speed "regarding stadium discussions," according to a team spokesperson.

Before joining Cleveland Avenue, Zopp served as CEO and president of World Business Chicago for three years. Prior to that, Zopp was Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s deputy mayor and chief neighborhood development officer.

Zopp also ran for the U.S. Senate in 2016, losing in the Democratic primary the incumbent, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.

Zopp has her work cut out for her as the Bears appear to be moving quickly on their proposal for a domed stadium just south of Soldier Field — to the dismay of advocacy groups who have long worked to protect the lakefront.

After meeting with Bears leadership late last month, Gin Kilgore, acting executive director of Friends of the Parks, said he’s not buying Warren’s hurry-up approach to a stadium deal.

Kilgore believes the city should invite the team to consider other locations, such as the lakefront site a little to the south of McCormick Place once occupied by Michael Reese Hospital.

In an interview last week, Kilgore would not say whether Friends of the Parks would file suit to block construction of a domed lakefront stadium.

Aside from location, there is also the issue of funding. Both the Bears and White Sox want new stadiums — the Sox envision a $1.5 billion ballpark in the South Loop — and both teams hope some of the money will come from bonds issued by the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, created to build Guaranteed Rate Field, which opened in 1991. Bonds issued by that state agency are paid off with a portion of city hotel taxes. Both teams have stepped up efforts to hammer out a deal with the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority.

Warren claims construction costs could escalate by as much as $200 million for every year the team waits before starting work on a new home.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Huge win for the Chiefs a few weeks ago.

This is all noise. Either Chicago gives them $2 billion or it's in AH. The school board needs to realize this and end the whole process. The NFL always wins these things.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

You're from Rolling Meadows, right? How would your family stand to personally gain from this? I should like to think there's some personal stake in this that informs your zeal for it and that you wouldn't just say that the northwest suburban public school districts, arguably a big part of the reason why people like to live here, should just bend over and take it from some mediocre sports team.

You're from Rolling Meadows, right? How would your family stand to personally gain from this? I should like to think there's some personal stake in this that informs your zeal for it and that you wouldn't just say that the northwest suburban public school districts, arguably a big part of the reason why people like to live here, should just bend over and take it from some mediocre sports team.

If not enjoy whatever happens to that land.

A tax break would be public funding of the stadium.

This is where my epicaricacy kicks into high gear as it concerns the citizen of Arlington Heights. They're desperately concerned about what happens to that land. Tent City for illegals, anyone?

They lament the demise of the racetrack that was the very identity of their city for so long, so much so that a horse was part of the town logo. It's recently been removed. But they caused the demise by refusing a casino twenty-five years ago.

I'm enjoying seeing them stew. And whatever eventually ends up on that site is likely to have far greater impact than a casino at the racetrack would have.

I'll ask once again why you, the proponent for years of wanting public funds to not build stadiums is not fully behind the Bears paying for their own stadium?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

They're not paying for their own stadium. They expect taxpayer money to build the rest of the complex around the stadium, and there's no stadium without the little village around it.

When you get a tax break on your primary residence do you think the public is funding your house?

Are you sure? Of course the city/state has to provide infrastructure but that is the case for any new development.

Do you think Arlington Heights is paying for the Joes Crab Shack building?

I remember the casiNO buttons people would wear.

This is where my epicaricacy kicks into high gear as it concerns the citizen of Arlington Heights. They're desperately concerned about what happens to that land. Tent City for illegals, anyone?

They lament the demise of the racetrack that was the very identity of their city for so long, so much so that a horse was part of the town logo. It's recently been removed. But they caused the demise by refusing a casino twenty-five years ago.

I'm enjoying seeing them stew. And whatever eventually ends up on that site is likely to have far greater impact than a casino at the racetrack would have.

it's time you all are hauled out to the public square and shot in the face

I'm not from anywhere close to AH. The city actually would be easier for me to go to games in a dome. I'm not sitting outside in December in Chicago.

The school districts are asking for too much. It's already going to give them more money than they can use. It's not like they are struggling now.

If not enjoy whatever happens to that land.

I'll ask once again why you, the proponent for years of wanting public funds to not build stadiums is not fully behind the Bears paying for their own stadium?

it's time you all are hauled out to the public square and shot in the face

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

Is it really necessary to say “state of the art”? And what would that even mean? It’s going to be a fixed dome.

And is this a joint statement with the mayor or just more Kevin Warren posturing?