LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago Bears had no grand announcement Thursday about concluding their never-ending stadium imbroglio, but after listening to George McCaskey and Kevin Warren talk again, what remains clear is they are very, very lucky that Ben Johnson took the head coaching job.Like, fall to their knees and pray at a shrine of Ben Johnson lucky. It’s obvious Johnson is underpaid even at $13 million per year and should be making $50 million, as Caleb Williams will be soon enough.Because without him, this franchise, led by McCaskey as owner and Warren as team president, remains the joke that fans have tired of laughing at. And yes, that includes Williams, who absolutely needed Johnson (or a coach like him) to realize his vast potential.GM Ryan Poles has done a fine enough job — his trade that got the Bears the No. 1 pick to acquire Williams will go down as one of the best in Chicago history — but it’s Johnson who can take this team to the top.On the way to Thursday’s press conference at Halas Hall, Chicago sports radio hosts were still reading excerpts of Dan Pompei’s insightful “day in the life” story on Johnson that ran on The Athletic on Wednesday. Bears fans ate up that story because it gave them something more than hope; it gave them confidence that last season wasn’t a dream and that Johnson, unlike Matt Nagy, wasn’t a mirage.And in typical Bears fashion, they followed that up with a press conference about a topic that fans hate delivered by two guys they don’t trust.What is it like to be the head coach of the Chicago Bears?Dan PompeiThe big news, such as it was, is that there are officially two sites in Hammond, Ind., under consideration for a world-class stadium and mixed-use development — conveniently located near a slag heap, an oil refinery, and a Superfund site.“The due diligence at the Lost Marsh site that we talked to you about before is completed,” Warren said during his six-minute opening statement. “And the due diligence is ongoing at the Wolf Lake terminal site. That’s the new site that we’ve been able to find. While we were working on the Lost Marsh Site, we discovered a potentially new site that could even be as good or better than the Lost Marsh site. So we’re in the middle of that due diligence. It’s a lot of work that happens on a daily basis.”A lot of work. Due diligence. Wake me when something happens.The Illinois General Assembly’s spring session ended with no legislation to help finalize a deal for tax certainty and infrastructure funding for the Arlington Park property the Bears have owned since February 2023, and Warren and McCaskey said there has been minimal conversation between them and the state since.