Very Bad News:Chicago Bears head coach angry and announed resignatino immediately…

IF JIM HARBAUGH HAD ZERO INTEREST in the Chicago Bears, why should the village of Arlington Heights and adjacent communities be any different?

Harbaugh will be introduced today as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. His brief courtship by Dean Spanos and family will culminate with an introductory press conference at 3 p.m. (CST).

The event reeks of “happy” and triumph. It’s almost as if Taylor Swift announced that she and Travis Kelce will be moving into a fresh biosphere — sponsored by Apple Vision Pro — along with Oprah, Charles Barkley, Gayle King, Barron Trump, Bob Dylan and Ken and Barbie.

There is already Super Bowl Fever around the LAC. The organization released a compelling video this week that implies the arrival of Harbaugh is the most energizing event to hit southern California since Saint Junipero Serra built the first mission on El Camino Real. (YouTube “Jim Harbaugh video” — the late Father Serra (d. 1784) is not included)

WHEN IT BECAME SUSPICIOUSLY APPARENT last month that Harbaugh would be leaving the University of Michigan, one needy NFL team was most prominent among the group that had no shot at landing his services.

That, of course, would be your Chicago Bears.

As one Harbaugh family intimate told the Daily Herald, “Jim knows far too much about the franchise to want to work for the McCaskey Bears.”

That hope buster is perfectly consistent with the primary off-field battle that George McCaskey and his coupon clippers are currently waging.

AS CRISPLY REPORTED BY CHRIS PLACEK in the Daily Herald, that’s the mouse-capades skirmish in which the Bears are attempting to dictate terms of their taxing on the 326 acres that once housed Arlington Park to three regional school districts.

The three — High School District 214, High School District 211 and Elementary District 15 — are holding their line. That is to the enormous credit of superintendents, boards and staff. They are fighting for educational integrity and fiscal stability over the muscular profit interests of a goof-proof multi-billion dollar show business corporation.

The Bears are battling over an annual sum estimated to be about $9 million. That’s less than half of what their fifth-year option on Justin Fields would cost (app. $23.4M).

But McCaskey, visiting self promoter Kevin Warren and Halas Hall hod carriers continue to waft and waffle over a move to Arlington Heights.

SO HERE’S A DAB OF FREE COUNSEL for Tom Hayes — village president of Arlington Heights — Palatine Mayor Jim Schwantz and Lara Sanoica, the first-term mayor of Rolling Meadows:

Working in determined unison, issue a deadline for the Bears to make their decision on Arlington Park — develop or sell, complete with details.

An eminently fair date would be May 1.

That would be 32 months since the purchase agreement between the Bears and Churchill Downs Inc. was announced and 15 months after the $197.2M deal was executed last February.

SOME LEGALISTS WILL ARGUE THAT such an ultimatum has no standing in any court.

More creative attorneys would contest that the residents of the three suburbs are being denied an intangible right to the full enjoyment and potential economic gain of an ambient and aesthetically fulfilling municipal region, whatever winds up being built on the site.

That’s what happens when there are 326 acres in a unique gateway position laying empty, desolate and more suitable for northern Minnesota-style open-strip ore mining.

THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS AREN’T merely introducing a new head coach this afternoon. They are unveiling a Lombardi Trophy-tier sense of organizational urgency.

The McCaskey Bears are incapable of generating such progressive pro-activity.

And the people who live around Arlington Park are supposed to be diminished because of that family’s legacy of penny-pinching?

STREET-BEATIN’:

All due kudos — Greg Olsen was excellent on the Fox telecast of the Niners-Lions NFC championship game. Conversely, slumping Tony Romo continued to bottom feed, wallowing through the Chiefs-Ravens AFC title match. Informed speculation that CBS Sports masters are trying to figure a way to bolster the Romo-Jim Nantz booth for Super Bowl 58. (Maybe Dave Chappelle could fill a third seat.) …

Memo to Lions HC Dan Campbell: In football, the most important metric is points on the scoreboard. Passing on field goals from 45 and 47 yards in a game your team loses 34-31 hints at some real sad-sack stupidity. Maybe Campbell’s noggin got the worst of too many forehead busters against bulls while he was at Texas A&M. …

The Washington Post recently called the Bulls “directionless losers.” Anyone want to argue the other side? Biggest backstage Q: When will the clock strike zero on drain-trusters Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley? They can only hide behind the long Lonzo Ball rehab for so long — and Zach LaVine didn’t self-author his nonsensical $215M contract. …

The White Sox held a numb-sucker for season-ticket holders at the Field Museum last Friday night. Booing Jerry Reinsdorf was not on the card. Theme should have been, “A Confederacy of Dunces,” complete with music by The “78” Sounds of Nashville. …

And “Professor” Jack Doran, on Bill Belichick‘s best possible next career stop: “There has to be a teetering republic somewhere that needs a power-hungry despot.”

Jim O’Donnell’s Sports and Media column appears each week on Sunday and Thursday. Reach him at jimodonnelldh@yahoo.com. All communications may be considered for publication.