Brandon Johnson

And indeed, the amount of money that the state is willing to put up is money that we would put up for a business in the state of Illinois for infrastructure alone, not building a stadium.

And that is a choice that people at a local level can make.

they now want to under that Senate bill I will say I have not seen the completed Senate bill or read it I have to say nor has my staff because as the speaker said it came late and that's okay things happen and we had a whole lot of things that were you know foisted upon the state that they were dealing with yesterday but indeed there's

The speaker is going to work hard to make sure that the House is making progress.

I will certainly stand alongside them in any way that I can assist in that endeavor.

And our hope is that we'll be able to provide something for the bears that will work.

We still need that, by the way.

38 states, 38 states have a pilot megaprojects law, 38 states.

We are literally behind the curve.

All we're doing is organizing the way that they negotiate.

They've always been negotiating about property taxes all across the country.

It's just in Illinois where we have a disorganized, dysfunctional endeavor forever, and now we're trying to organize it and make it work so that businesses will want to come here.

He underestimated it.

When I did it a couple weeks ago, it was about an hour 15.

Oh, that's rough.

So cool.

Was it like flag football?

We prevent the vast majority of these from ever taking place.

You know, there is an effort in city council to hold the social media apparatuses accountable.

I believe that we should continue to explore that.