Jeff Buchholz

And what it sounds like that means is the Bears are still looking for help in paying for infrastructure, bigger roads, improved water systems, and that kind of thing around the old Arlington Park site.

And this bill doesn't specifically do that.

So the Bears want to see more of that before they're ready to show their cards, really, in terms of how they're feeling about

Arlington Heights, the future of Arlington Heights versus the Hammond site that's been talked about as the site that the folks in Indiana are presenting.

It could get really messy, Marshall, and it's already shown signs of being pretty messy.

The fact that this passed out and there are 78 votes in favor of it, which is beyond the sort of the supermajority that the Democrats have in the House.

I mean, some Republicans signed on to this thing, too, and there are.

provisions in there designed to attract those votes.

But the Senate is a whole different animal.

And Don Harmon, the Senate president, who's also from Chicago, obviously is hearing from his members who may still be concerned about anything that involves encouraging the Chicago Bears to leave Soldier Field.

And indeed, you point out the Illinois Federation of Teachers, which, like the Chicago Teachers Union, is run by Stacey Davis-Gates.

um has certainly started started started to make its opinions known about this particular proposal so expect that state lawmakers and state senators when they come back next week we'll hear a lot from the bears they'll hear a lot from the ift and the ctu both of which are very powerful in this state um and i mean we'll we'll kind of see what happens i'm we've talked about this a number of times on

on this program and on some of the other programs on the score.

I'm with you, Marshall.

I don't think the Bears are going to go to Indiana.

I think that the front office, in particular George McCaskey, is looking for really any reason to say yes to Illinois.

And I think this is

Part of the way there, I remember when the first edition of this pilot bill passed the committee and I asked Cam Buckner, the sponsor, where he thought it was in terms of progress.

He said he thought it was nearing the red zone.

I think we're a little closer to the red zone now, but they don't have a clear shot at the end zone yet by any stretch of the imagination.