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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The Bears leaving Chicago was going to put a big hole in our economy.
We want to be part of any conversations.
We think there should be a more fair approach, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Curtis Tarver, who was the head of the committee, began his questioning of Mr. Maher by saying, how long have you been the CFO?
And the answer is 26 days.
He's just stepped in for Jill Jaworski, the former chief financial officer who now works for the Navy Peer Foundation, I believe.
So and and a lot of it, a lot of the response from the chairman of the committee was I'm not I don't want to make this into Chicago versus Arlington Heights net.
That's not what this bill is about.
And also, my understanding was that the bears in the city of Chicago were talking three years ago.
Why are you now here today, three years later, saying we need more time?
I think the city wants what Representative Buckner has said that he wants for the city, which is he wants the city to be made whole in some way.
Whether that's an upfront payment from the McCaskey family to the city, whether that's a couple of cents off concessions at whatever the new stadium is.
I'm sure that's being worked out and those conversations are still going on.
In terms of acting CFO Maher's appearance at the committee today, it felt a lot like too little too late.
Clearly, the energy in this is either they're either going to Arlington Heights to the property they own or to the state of Indiana.
It sounds as though...
From what we've heard about the NFL's view about a lakefront stadium, that the city is not an option here, but the city still wants to be part of whatever that conversation is, and usually, as you know, Marshall, that involves money.
Yeah.
I think the – it's important to remember, of course, the Bears aren't going anywhere in the short term.
They're at Soldier Field until 2033 in a facility that is owned by the Chicago Park District.
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