Geoff Buchholz
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307 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Geoff Buchholz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's not part of this bill.
This is the megaprojects bill.
This covers the entire state of Illinois.
It is his expectation that an equity package or something like that will be worked out in time.
He said to reporters this afternoon, and I have not heard this number before, the Bears initially have, within the last couple of weeks, had offered –
$25 million to the city of Chicago.
He described that as being asinine, I believe was the term he used.
And it's offered as a counter the amount of money that the Haslam family is giving the city of Cleveland so that it can leave its stadium in the city to go out to the suburbs, which I think is more like $100 million.
It was $100 million.
So I suspect that's where they are in those negotiations.
And that doesn't even count the half a billion dollars that's still owed on the 2003 renovations of Soldier Field.
Yes, exactly.
Yes, that's exactly correct.
And Representative Buckner made the point that a lot of local communities are trying to attract businesses to come to their area, not just with sporting facilities, but data centers and, you know, whole kinds of other things you can imagine.
And this would give them a way to work out.
Whatever property tax arrangement these developers would need in order to bring development and jobs to the state of Illinois.
It's important to point out that before the vote on the bill, a representative from the from Americans for Prosperity, which is a conservative leaning organization founded by the funded by the Koch brothers.
testified against this bill suggesting that this particular legislation would force property tax burden onto private homeowners living around such a mega project, which is sort of an interesting take.
I mean, that is certainly an argument.
One of the other people we heard from before the vote was Stephen Maher, the acting chief financial officer for the city of Chicago, who went down there and said, you know,
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