Porter County splitting on planned taxes for Bears stadium in Hammond

(INDIANA CAPTIAL CHRONICLE) — The united front of northwest Indiana support for luring the Chicago Bears across the state line has some cracks.

While Bears officials say they are focused on Hammond as the site for the team’s planned new domed stadium, support is shaky for some of the local tax increases underpinning Indiana’s incentive package.

Indiana’s stadium offer — approved by lawmakers and signed by Gov. Mike Braun in late February — would direct more than $1 billion in taxpayer money toward stadium-area infrastructure that officials say would also support the team’s plans for surrounding retail, restaurants and residential development.

That money would come from a mix of new local taxes in Lake and Porter counties along with an undetermined share of a  Read Entire Article