A longtime associate of the Chicago Bears who helped secure the public financing deal for Soldier Field renovations more than two decades ago is now trying to get taxpayers support for the team s move to Arlington Heights.
There is no substitute for good teaching. Substitute teacher Steve Johnson proves that in his work with his students at Conyers Learning Academy in Palatine.
All three school districts whose boundaries include the Chicago Bears 326-acre Arlington Park property are now all on board in hiring a joint lobbyist to oppose, or at least amend, legislation that would give the franchise a massive tax break there.
The Northwest Suburban High School District 214 and Palatine Township Elementary District 15 school boards plan to retain a still-to-be-named lobbyist to oppose or at least get amended recently filed state legislation that would take a cut of their future property tax revenues and give the Chicago Bears a massive tax break at Arlington Park.
Legislation that would give the Chicago Bears a massive property tax break to redevelop Arlington Park has a surprise sponsor: Democratic state Sen. Ann Gillespie of Arlington Heights, who said she s open to the concept if it comes with her long-sought reforms to tax-increment financing.