I cross through that stretch of Cortland a lot. It's bleak. The old-timey streetlights flanked by concrete barriers and gravel feels like something out of one of those post-apocalyptic video games. I don't know what can or should end up there, but a mixed-use luxury complex is very hard to imagine. I hope they do something with it soon. Red Stars stadium, maybe? Have their base of In This House families and lesbians hang out on that stretch of Armitage between Racine and Sheffield before/after games? I don't know.


Drink on the train in? I don't know. We're not Green Bay.

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The McCaskeys can’t afford it. Ginny is over 100. Connect some dots.

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Drinks on the train is never a problem. But cold, wet sub sandwiches in my lap twice a month for four months? No thank you.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Arlington Heights isn't dead until the Bears sell the land....or a new Bears stadium gets built elsewhere, which is not going to happen.
I fully understand the lack of cash sitting with the McCaskeys.. That point was raised even before they closed on the AH property. There has to be an outside investor already engaged. I still maintain this is negotiating and eventually an AH stadium gets done. The Bears just didn't expect this kind of strong-arm from the city and the Governor.

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Funding has never stopped an NFL stadium from being built. The NFL always finds a way. The only question is how it is funded and often that is with the government kicking in some money.

This one gets a little tougher because they can't threaten to move to what used to be Las Vegas but is now San Antonio or Salt Lake City but they'll find the money to build the stadium in Arlington Heights if needed. Kevin Warren just seems to need the Bears to be on a lakefront.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Don't worry, they saved the Salt Shack for Boygenius concerts. UNESCO World Heritage Site incoming.

Iconic Browns game on the snowy lakefront and the dipshit who signed Deshaun Watson wants to replace it with an aircraft hangar and plastic grass. Man, whatever.

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It’ll bring them to 3-8. Easy now. It’s fun to watch but iconic is doing a heavy, heavy lift.

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Maybe I got caught up in it being Browns-Steelers in Midwestern winter weather. Still, the Browns of all teams should not be indoors.

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Nor should the bears.

Ideally the city stops being stubborn and lets them build Halas world on the lakefront and shoves Friends-of-the-Lake in a locker.

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Visually awesome game, fans players all seemed to be into the entire atmosphere.

Only thing that could have made it better would have been a roof.

Haslam is lucky the Browns have been SO bad for SO long that they've become irrelevant outside of northern Ohio, and that other bigger teams like the Cowboys, Raiders and Jets are also currently dumpster fires. He's the worst owner in the league besides MAYBE Tepper. Yes, I would rank Ginny above him.

I know the Cortland Bridge is locked up and was only saved because its historically significant but its pretty silly to have North Ave be a fixed span while Ashland, Cortland and Webster are all still drawbridges.

Never been a fan of the way Chicago turns its back on its industrial identity.

Money shot!

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There should be no money for a new stadium until the team is sold.

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