The Chicago Fire announced plans this week to build a 22,000-seat open-air soccer-specific stadium in Chicago's South Loop. Illustration courtesy of Chicago Fire FC

Why can the Chicago Fire announce it’s building a new stadium, complete with a chosen site, while the Bears and White Sox dither?

C’mon, you know the answer. It’s always the same.

Money. More to the point, our money.

The Bears went to the General Assembly begging for help to build their $5 billion home for eight or nine regular-season games and one or two exhibition games a year. The governor and legislative leaders told the Bears a while ago they didn’t have a couple of billion dollars lying around for a state-of-the-art dome, but the Bears went begging anyway.

And the Bears came up empty when the legislative session end

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