https://www.therepublic.com/2025/12/18/gov-braun-says-hell-work-to-build-chicago-bears-a-stadium-in-northwest-indiana/
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"Indiana Gov. Mike Braun issued a statement on the Bears’ decision Wednesday evening.
“The Chicago Bears recognize Indiana’s pro-business climate, and I am ready to work with them to build a new stadium in Northwest Indiana,” Braun said. “This move would deliver a major economic boost, create jobs, and bring another premier NFL franchise to the Hoosier State. Let’s get it done.”
When asked last week about whether the state should make a bid to bring the Bears to Indiana, Braun said, “Why wouldn’t you want to be discussing it?”
But the governor wouldn’t say whether he’d had conversations about the idea. “I have had discussions on a lot of different things,” Braun told IBJ Editor Lesley Weidenbener, who asked about the Bears during IBJ Media’s Innovate Central Indiana event at the Westin hotel in downtown Indianapolis.
“I’m never going to think small on any of it, but if I do it, it’s going to work,” he said about the Bears.
Braun told IBJ that sports is an important industry for Indiana. “It’s a winner economically,” he said.
And the governor, who played football in high school, said he supports state involvement in stadium and other sports-related projects. But, Braun added, the finances “have to be doable.”
He said he supports projects that help Indiana “remain a hub of athletics.”"