Jeff Buchholz

In the meantime, Indiana is poised to give final approval to their stadium authority bill.

And Chairman Tarver pointed this out after asking Stephen Maher, when did you become the CFO of the city of Chicago?

And the answer was 25 days previous.

He took over.

He's on an interim basis because the CFO, Jill Jaworski, just left for Navy Pier.

But then his question was, Curtis Tarver's question was,

Y'all have been talking for three years with the Bears about this.

Why now do you need more time?

And Marr's answer was, well, you know, the issue has been a lack of commitment from the Bears, which I translated as they're just not that into you, which I think is I think that's.

I understand why he was there, and I understand what he was doing.

He was trying to advocate for the city and trying to advocate for Chicago.

But it does tee up the broader question about how the Bears make Chicago whole if, indeed, they wind up leaving the city, which seems clear.

And Representative Buckner – and I know he said this to you guys –

And he said it to reporters after the committee meeting yesterday.

We got a sense of what they're thinking about.

And Buckner said, you know, the Bears a couple of months ago offered a parting gift of $25 million.

And I told them I thought that was disrespectful to the people of Chicago, particularly when the Haslam family, the owners of the Cleveland Browns, is giving the city of Cleveland $100 million to move to the suburbs.

And I suspect that hundred million dollar number is the floor rather than the ceiling.

And I suspect that that's what what's going to happen here in the next two to three weeks, that we're going to get a better sense of what the city and the delegation is looking for.

Now, I think that the.