You Can Bet on It

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is going to run for President; you can bet on it. And he has no intention of running with the label of “the governor who let the Bears move to Indiana” stuck to him. So, if NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Bears’ George McCaskey and Kevin Warren and members of the Illinois General Assembly got together this week, you can also bet Pritzker was more than an innocent bystander. The Assembly’s fall veto session kicks off the week after next; a stadium deal could get done then; if not, by spring. Arlington Heights will be the odds-on favorite for the new Bears’ home, followed by Chicago as a longshot. Indiana? Hoosierville may want them, but the Bears don’t want to go there. And JB Pritzker doesn’t want them to, either.