Brandon Johnson

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1,065 appearances 53 recordings 8 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 5d ago

Brandon Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 53 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 18.

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Mayor Brandon Johnson makes his pitch for Bears to stay in Chicago · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

And as mayor of Chicago, I'm going to work hard.

And maybe I'm going to get a little bit of that Caleb Williams kind of magic.

And when people think that we're down and out, look, I know there's some questions around Caleb.

I'm just saying that if we can pull this off, it's going to require all of us.

We all have to be moving in the same direction.

And I'm committed to doing that for the Bears fans and for the future of our city.

Thank you, Mayor.

Of course.

Thank you all.

Rahimi & Grote Show · Where's the publicly owned site Brandon Johnson claims is Bears-approved? (Hour 4) · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

I really want to understand this.

It doesn't require that, but yes, it allows a local government because, for example, Arlington Heights and Chicago want to compete in order to have a stadium.

And you may recall that the mayor of Chicago held a big press conference with the Bears announcing a $2.5 billion stadium.

that he had no money to pay for.

So somehow that was going to have to get paid for.

And that's not something I was willing to do.

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.

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