You're in that 'Toddlin' Town, of course, with your good friend - Mayor Beetlejuice...
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Her city has the highest murder rate of any major city in the country, but this is her priority. On Monday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot proposed a $900 million to $2.2 billion Hail Mary offer to convince the Bears to stay in their home stadium of over 50 years.
However, the Chicago Bears stated in a press release earlier this month that they wouldn’t consider any other offers, even for their home stadium, Soldier Field. The NFL team reaffirmed that sentiment to ESPN this week, noting that they were set on moving to another location over 30 miles away.
“As part of our mutual agreement with the seller of that property, we are not pursuing alternative stadium deals or sites, including renovations to Soldier Field, while we are under contract,” stated the team.
The Bears plan to move to Arlington Park, the longtime site of Churchill Downs’ thoroughbred racing in Arlington Heights. That area experiences well below the national median of crime levels, according to multiple crime statistic analyses. Census data reports that the area has a median household income of over $100,200, and just over four percent of residents were in poverty.
Comparatively, the city of Chicago suffers from high crime rates characterized by record numbers of shootings. Census data revealed that the city had a median household income of nearly $62,100, and over 17 percent of residents were in poverty.
Along with the Bears’ definitive statement, Lightfoot revealed to AP News that the team refused to meet with her.
Even so, Lightfoot hasn’t slowed on her attempts to further negotiations. Lightfoot explained in Monday’s press release that the $900 million to $2.2 billion would cover three different renovation options that could result in either a fully-enclosed stadium, a dome stadium, or a multi-purpose stadium suitable for soccer games and concerts.
Lightfoot noted that the first two options were proposed with the Bears in mind. She asserted that the Bears would save an estimated $1 to $1.5 billion in costs if they remained with Soldier Field rather than moving on to Arlington Park.
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Bruce Springsteen’s manager is doubling down on ticket prices for the 72-year-old rocker’s latest tour, which have some seats costing as much as $5,000 apiece.
In this economy, such prices have left fans shocked that the musician who once championed the working man has allowed his ticket sales to “rip the bones from their backs.”
In what has become a controversial “dynamic pricing” method under Ticketmaster’s monopoly system, which determines ticket prices by the demand to discourage scalping - The Boss’s manager defended Team Springsteen, despite the number of “platinum” tickets hitting excessively high costs.
He's gone through this pricing bullshit before.
“In pricing tickets for this tour, we looked carefully at what our peers have been doing,” Jon Landau said in a statement, per The New York Times. “We chose prices that are lower than some and on par with others.”
Although The Boss has yet to address his fans, E-Street’s guitar and mandolin player Steve Van Zandt made sure he stayed out of the controversy when asked on Twitter if he’s seen the ticket costs.
“I have nothing whatsoever to do with the price of tickets,” Van Zandt said. “Nothing. Nada. Niente. Bubkis. Dick,” Van Zandt, who also played the infamous Silvio Dante in HBO’s hit series “The Sopranos,” added.
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In 1942, the United States was faced with a severe shortage of pilots, and leaders gambled on an experimental program to help fill the void: Train women to fly military aircraft so male pilots could be released for combat duty overseas. The group of female pilots was called the Women Airforce Service Pilots — WASP for short
WASP (from left) Frances Green, Margaret Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leave their B-17, called Pistol Packin' Mama, during ferry training at Lockbourne Army Air Force base in Ohio. They're carrying their parachutes.
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If you are thinking of getting something a little 'special'
for a special someone, won't you consider at least looking
at some of the jewelry my wife makes?
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The Biden administration is scrapping plans to let more younger adults get second COVID-19 boosters this summer. Instead, officials are planning to speed up availability of the next generation of boosters in the fall, three administration officials confirmed to NPR.
The new strategy came after a debate within the administration about trying to balance protecting people this summer with keeping people safe next winter, when the country will probably get hit by yet another surge, according to the officials familiar with the discussion.
Some officials wanted to launch a new booster campaign this summer to encourage more people to get boosted and more boosted people to get double-boosted to protect them against the highly contagious BA.5 subvariant driving a surge this summer.
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In case you hear me say something that you don't quite understand:
translate her stellar success as a child star into a film career as
an adult and retired from the movie industry
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Okay, maybe it is...
When the bra & panties match, the decision has already been made.
ReplyDeleteokay. I guess...
DeleteIs there a bigger sell out than Sphinctersteen?
ReplyDeletehe's a tool, plain and simple...
DeleteI here always thought I was learning Zigilian
ReplyDeleteThe body count from the Saint Valentines Day Massacre would be described as a peaceful weekend in today's Chicago
ReplyDeleteMark in PA