The battle to lure the Chicago Bears is heating up as lawmakers in their home state of Illinois voted in favor of a measure that could pave the way for the team to build a new suburban stadium.
The move by a key committee in the state house comes after neighboring Indiana marched ahead with plans to snatch the team, one of the National Football League’s founding franchises. Illinois had so far made little progress on approving incentives the team has sought to build the stadium in Arlington Heights, an affluent suburb about 26 miles from downtown Chicago.
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