Chicago Bears Spending Billions To Leave Town
City spending another $2bn to keep them on the lake. The Chicago bears are the oldest team in the NFL and they have been an institution in Chicago since 1926. The McCaskeys, who own the team have done extremely well during that period and, what started as a semi-pro team in Decatur, IL is now the 7th most valuable NFL franchise at a little over $4.0 Billion dollars.
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How politics forced Chicago into a vigilante-style ofjustice. On December 22, 2021, in a desperate attempt to control the massive gun violence in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked Attorney General, Merrick Garland to detail ATF agents to the city for six months , “with all delivered haste,...” In addition to agents, the Mayor also requested an undisclosed number of federal prosecutors and marshals to help with the anticipated increase in arrests and court cases.
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