Chuck Swirsky

Yeah, you don't go through any sort of the legislative rigmarole unless there's a reason.

They enacted the right procedural process to say, we would like to get this done.

We are going to write a law that says we will get the taxes through this body of entity, the public entity.

What's that?

Yes.

So if that's the case, they're serious.

It's just a matter of how serious they are.

And $895 million, as we've discussed, seems to be in the ballpark of what we thought the Bears were asking for from the state of Illinois.

But here's the thing.

It's the difference of what's left that seems to be the sticking point here.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of $5 billion, am I correct?

But the state of Illinois has said, we will give you the money for the infrastructure.

I don't think that that was ever in question.

It's just the rest of it, the subsidizing.

9.9.

Yeah, 9.8, 9.9.

It's a guaranteed eight or nine regular season dates a year.

So I'm pretty sure that given the way the Bears played this past season, people would be willing to drive to Indiana to be at a Bears home game.

And if not, that's a-okay.

It's well within your rights.