Chicago Bears appear headed to suburbs as they buy Arlington Park

The exodus from Chicago continues. Macy's and the Gap have bailed on North Michigan Avenue, which was hit hard by two waves or riots last year.

And now the Chicago Bears appear to be on the move too. Late last night news broke that the NFL charter franchise purchased Arlington Park, a horse racing track, in suburban Cook County. The race course closed this month for good.

This is huge. Off of the top of my head--of the cities with teams in all four major sports leagues only Philadelphia and Denver have teams that play their home games in the core city--or have never had one of their teams call one of their suburbs home.

In seemingly unrelated news, CWB Chicago is reporting that on Monday the city's police commissioner, David Brown, in a speech said that car jackings are "down" in Chicago. That is a lie and Brown knows it. Also on that same day Cook County's so-called prosecutor, Kim Foxx, in a Tweet claimed that "the homicide rate remains flat." Wrong. Murders this year are up slightly over 2020 and much higher than in 2019.