Apparently the ball fondlers were willing to drop $3B on a new stadium complex out of their own money.
The mayor of chicongo had a plan to have a massive waterfront complex. The governor didn't give any approval or buy-in on that plan.
Subsequently, the legislature and chicongo waffled for three years, knowing the jockstrap laden chimpanzee handegg tossers set a deadline at the end of May to come up with something, because Hammond, Indiana - literally still the chicongo metro area, was courting the team with sweet perks. In the meantime, the state with the hate concluded the legislature session for the term and went home with nothing decided.
shy-town did nothing other than say we've tried one thing and we're all out of ideas, and the totally-not-gay-but-we-are-gay ass touching rape monkeys said "We're leaving, bye!"
The Bears literally said we'll pay for pretty much everything up to and including three beeeeelion dollars, and ill-noise said no.