Report: NFL commissioner met with Illinois lawmakers Thursday
<p>On the same day that <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> president/CEO Kevin Warren and chairman George McCaskey claimed they’d had <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/08/13/bears-stadium-update-hammond-arlington-heights-george-mccaskey-kevin-warren-chairman-president-indiana-illinois-nfl" target="_blank" >“minimal” conversations</a> recently with local lawmakers about a stadium funding plan, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly met with Illinois officials Thursday.</p><p>Politico reported Friday morning that he met with a “few select Illinois lawmakers” Thursday. The commissioner’s office declined comment.</p><p>It’s unlikely the commissioner would hold any sort of meeting, informal or not, without the Bears’ blessing.
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<p>On the same day that <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> president/CEO Kevin Warren and chairman George McCaskey claimed they’d had <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/08/13/bears-stadium-update-hammond-arlington-heights-george-mccaskey-kevin-warren-chairman-president-indiana-illinois-nfl" target="_blank" >“minimal” conversations</a> recently with local lawmakers about a stadium funding plan, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly met with Illinois officials Thursday.</p><p>Politico reported Friday morning that he met with a “few select Illinois lawmakers” Thursday. The commissioner’s office declined comment.</p><p>It’s unlikely the commissioner would hold any sort of meeting, informal or not, without the Bears’ blessing. The team has continued to declare Hammond, Ind., as the sole focus of its stadium site search — but the Bears still haven't closed the door to staying in Illinois. That has kept at least slim hopes alive for them to try to work out a funding plan with local politicians, who are out of the legislative session.</p><p>Thursday, McCaskey made it sound like the NFL’s stadium committee, of which he’s a member, might need some convincing to allow the move across state lines.</p><p>“We think that, ultimately, they will become comfortable,” he said.</p><p>The Bears, meanwhile, are continuing their stadium slog, one that started more than five years ago and has yanked fans’ hopes around like a tug-of-war rope.
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- <p>On the same day that <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> president/CEO Kevin Warren and chairman George McCaskey claimed they’d had <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/08/13/bears-stadium-update-hammond-arlington-heights-george-mccaskey-kevin-warren-chairman-president-indiana-illinois-nfl" target="_blank" >“minimal” conversations</a> recently with local lawmakers about a stadium funding plan, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly met with Illinois officials Thursday.</p><p>Politico reported Friday morning that he met with a “few select Illinois lawmakers” Thursday. The commissioner’s office declined comment.</p><p>It’s unlikely the commissioner would hold any sort of meeting, informal or not, without the Bears’ blessing.
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