Geoff Buchholz
speaker
307 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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With your emphasis on patience, how much longer are you willing to wait for deals to come to you?
Well, Kevin has said and the commissioner has said we need to make a decision sooner rather than later.
When the process is completed in one place or the other and we have a deal to consider, then we'll look to see where we are with the other situation and we'll make a decision.
Ultimately, what happened here, I think, is that, well, I mean, this all kind of started to unravel over the weekend.
And the Senate has been meeting for probably the last month or so to try to figure out how to get to yes on the bill that passed the House.
And we talked about that when it happened, this Christmas tree of a bill that included the pilot legislation payment in lieu of taxes to let the bears and other megaproject developers participate.
negotiate long-term property tax deals and payments with local governments in lieu of paying their property taxes every year.
But it also had incentives to redevelop rail yards and a boost in tourism for Springfield and all this other stuff.
And so it made it mostly to get support from Republicans and people outside the city of Chicago.
And so it went to the Senate.
But ultimately, the Senate
Had trouble.
The Chicago delegation in particular had a problem with this measure.
And Bill Cunningham, who's the sponsor of this new Senate bill, which we'll talk about in a sec, said, you know, the Chicago delegation is being asked to vote for a bill that would encourage that would help the bears leave the city of Chicago.
And they don't really want to do that.
Adding to this is the Bears having said repeatedly, and Kevin Warren has said this a number of times, and they released a statement a couple weeks ago saying, we have two sites.
It's Arlington Park, which we own, or Hammond, where Indiana will build us a stadium.
But then we find out that in April and May, the Bears had been talking to the Johnson administration about, well, you know, maybe there's some sites in Chicago.
And...
All of a sudden, it's like the city of Chicago is like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber.
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