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Incoming Arlington Heights mayor hopes to seal Bears stadium deal

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Jim Tinaglia was tending bar in the northwest suburbs when the 1985 Chicago Bears shuffled to their Super Bowl title.

Tinaglia hopes the team’s next championship run comes while he’s in the mayor’s office in Arlington Heights — and with the team playing games in his hometown.

“It was crazy fun,” Tinaglia said of his tenure slinging drinks to Bears fans at the Snuggery watering hole in nearby Mount Prospect. “Nothing could be finer than to have that kind of a celebration a few years from now.