Geoff Buchholz

But, you know, he's going to sit down at the City Club over here at Maggiano's, and if they wind up in Indiana, he's going to get a lot of weird looks from people.

And, you know, the Bears Fan Fest, whatever it is, is going to –

that's going to be kind of a dark moment if they move.

I, I know you've been saying this and I agree with you.

I think they're going to wind up in Arlington Heights.

It's just, you know, we're just trying to figure out how many zeros are on the check right now.

So I, I don't,

It sure seems that way, and a lot of the reason it seems that way is because all of the Illinois conversations have been happening behind closed doors, right?

Like, we haven't seen the debate on the floor of the Illinois House and Senate to the extent that we have in Indiana.

So it looks like, based on just what's out there and what we've been covering, because all we can cover is what we can see, that it feels like Indiana is sort of where the momentum is.

But...

I believe if the Illinois House can approve this legislation and Chris Welch, the speaker, would not bring this to the floor if he didn't think he had 60 votes, which would pass it.

If they pass this thing, then I think Arlington Heights starts to look a lot better.

And would conceivably shift the momentum, especially if Senate President Don Harmon, who's also from Chicago, is able to bring this thing up quickly in the Senate without a lot of amendments or debate next week when they come back to session.

And Cam Buckner made that point in Springfield.

He may have made that point on the morning show today as well, where it's like, look, this isn't the way I would have done it.

I wouldn't have bought the land and then figured out what to do after it.

But again, this was the Ted Phillips strategy of...

buying a piece of property that they owned and they controlled.

And then, you know, Mr. Phillips left.