Illinoisans are paying above the national average for the most essential household bills.

The bill paying assistance company doxo found that residents of Illinois pay nearly $900 more a year for household expenses than the national average.

The Chicago Bears Fan of the Year is eager for a new stadium. Corey Schieler, who was named top fan by the team last year, has sat through frigid temperatures at Soldier Field, and would love the team to get a dome. But he’s also a businessman, so he understands the current impasse in making that happen.

“A new stadium is much needed,” he said. “But that’s negotiations for any kind of business plan, especially of this size. You have to play all sides to make a good business outcome. It’ll just be long and painful, and everybody understands that.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday briefed members of the Chicago City Council on his plans to move the nearly 2,000 migrants from police stations across the city into large tents, and said it will likely cost more than $300 million to care for the men, women and children sent to Chicago from the southern border through the end of the year.

Since the first bus of migrants arrived in Chicago on a bus sent by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott a year ago, more than 13,500 people have made their way to Chicago, straining the city’s social safety net and at times exacerbating tension between Chicago’s Black and Latino communities.

The city is closer than ever to a “transformational” Red Line extension decades in the making, officials said.

The CTA will soon receive almost $2 billion in federal funding for the $3.6 billion project to extend the south branch of Red Line nearly 6 miles, officials announced at a Friday press conference.