Hours after Illinois lawmakers failed to approve a stadium incentives structure aimed at keeping the Chicago Bears in Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker acknowledged that the team may take a deal to build a new stadium in Indiana.
Pritzker and the leaders of the House and Senate defended their processes and priorities at a news conference Monday morning, about five hours after they adjourned an all-night session.
They said that a combination of the late emergence of bill language in the Senate, along with their own resistance to hand out taxpayer dollars to a football team valued at nearly $9 billion, derailed the bill.
Pritzker said he would work with House lawmakers over the summer on a stadium package.