Layla Rahimi

I said tax and that is also helping fund things like the Soldier Field renovation from 2003 but when the city has to pay because that tax doesn't always get met the number has to be met and so there are times where the two percent hotel tax doesn't foot all the bill for that yearly and then it's the city who has to pick up the slack there which means taxpayer money

Again, that's where we're trying to figure this out.

The 2024 plan that was originally pushed by Mayor Brandon Johnson and Kevin Warren had public money in there to the tune of one and a half billion alongside another one billion in borrowed money.

But that seems to be different from what the latest information we know is.

what's the plan what did the city do what were the conversations with the bears those are my top three help us help us fill in the information

There's a federal law in place that protects the lakefront.

It's not even Friends of the Parks.

That's usually the organization who will legislate and try to bring it up on behalf of that.

But the bottom line is, there are a lot of moving parts into...

a piece of information and at least a plan that we thought was no longer on the table back in 2024 and if that refers to this in any way his statement then we deserve to know how it changed outside of just using the ifsa or the isfa using that as far as getting this into place to make it make sense financially it is still a very tax-strapped organization

Mayor Brandon Johnson now walking into our studio.

We welcome Mayor Brandon Johnson and his staff into Rahimi Harrison-Grady.

Hi.

We have a seat prepared for you and some headphones.

And if the volume is too loud, you can adjust it on your left side.

So thank you for coming in.

We can let him get settled.

I know there's a lot of moving parts.

Well, we hope that... Righty or lefty?

All right.