* Bloomberg…

The Chicago Bears will now have to wait until the new year for a chance to get enough support to build their $3 billion suburban stadium.

The football team, which has been trying to move to a new stadium for about four years, is leaving the Illinois fall legislative session empty-handed. Without the funds and support it needs from the state, the dream of a new home is delayed until at least the first half of 2026, when lawmakers will be back in session.

The setback underscores how the Bears’ high-stakes effort to move out of Soldier Field — the National Football League’s oldest stadium, which opened in 1924 — has stumbled at nearly every turn. It also leaves one of the league’s founding franchises and the third-largest media market stuck with an outdated stadium and fans longing for a new football coliseum.

* Their offer of pocket change for pork projects didn’t move the needle at all this week. Sun-Times…

Representatives for the Chicago Bears were poised to leave Springfield Thursday yet again without any help from state lawmakers in their drive for a new stadium in Arlington Heights.

Not even a proposed $25 million payment from the team to benefit the city of Chicago was enough to get them past midfield as the clock wound down on the Illinois General Assembly’s fall veto session. […]

Sources close to the team’s lobbying effort said the $25 million — which would be given to the state for lawmakers to parcel out for projects in Chicago — wasn’t intended to meet Gov. JB Pritzker’s suggestion that the team should find a way to pay off the $534 million in public debt that’s still outstanding from Soldier Field’s 2003 renovation.

In the letter, the team asserted it “has paid its contractual share toward the 2003 stadium renovations and has no obligation to repay” the state bonds that are backed by a 2% hotel tax.