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No love for new Bears stadium from Illinois' top Democrats

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Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren’s glitzy new lakefront stadium proposal was met with a surrounding no by the state’s top Democrats on Wednesday.

At least for now.

Noticeably absent from the Bears unveiling, Gov. J.B. Pritzker echoed previous public statements and again brushed aside the latest proposal — which includes more than $2 billion in private funds from the Bears but still requires taxpayer subsidies, saying it “isn’t one that I think the taxpayers are interested in getting engaged in.”

The cost of the project is estimated at $4.