{"id":66781,"date":"2026-02-19T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/indiana-approves-plan-to-lure-bears-away-from-chicago\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:55:57","slug":"indiana-approves-plan-to-lure-bears-away-from-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/indiana-approves-plan-to-lure-bears-away-from-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana approves plan to lure Bears away from Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Team have been in Chicago since 1921<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Indiana committed to helping build new stadium<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Chicago Bears\u2019 potential move to Indiana took another step forward on Thursday when a key committee approved a plan to create an agency that would help get a stadium built.<\/p>\n<p>The Indiana House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee passed a bill establishing a Northwest Indiana Stadium Authority to finance, construct and lease a stadium by a 24-0 margin. The Bears are looking at a tract of land near Wolf Lake in Hammond, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/19\/indiana-approves-plan-to-lure-bears-away-from-chicago\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team have been in Chicago since 1921 Indiana committed to helping build new stadium The Chicago Bears\u2019 potential move to Indiana took another step forward on Thursday when a key committee approved a plan to create an agency that would help get a stadium built. The Indiana House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee passed &#8230; <a title=\"Indiana approves plan to lure Bears away from Chicago\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/indiana-approves-plan-to-lure-bears-away-from-chicago\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Indiana approves plan to lure Bears away from Chicago\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}