Leila Rahimi

It still sits on a vacant lot where Arlington Park used to be.

No, it was more than that.

Let's see.

Yeah, $197.2 million.

But that's without your taxes and your freight costs, so to speak.

$197.2 million is a drop in the bucket compared to $5 billion, which they cannot meet.

I know, but first and foremost, we're going to get to somebody who can let us in on the procedure and the discussion and being the former governor of the state, what questions he has.

So let's get a real pro on the phone.

This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score.

The latest news we have this morning is that there was supposed to be a meeting to set forth a projects bill that would include roughly $800 to $900 million to help the Bears with infrastructure for their Arlington Heights project.

The governor, J.B.

Pritzker's chief of staff, reporting on Twitter that Illinois was ready to move the bill forward, but the Bears requested the ILGA pause the hearing to make further tweaks to the bill.

And they said that this morning they were surprised to see a statement lauding Indiana and ignoring Illinois.

That is from Matt Hill, who is on J.B.

Pritzker's communications network.

staff we now go to our hotline because to get more information on this we we needed to call in some ringers so former governor pat quinn is kind enough to join us here in rahimi harrison grody the illinois governor from 2009 to 2015 thank you so much for coming on okay how you guys doing uh layla and marshall uh a lot of news this morning uh i'm a bears fan from birth and uh

Well, and I, you know, I understand it from a from an emotional standpoint.

But when you hear this news, too, as the former governor, you know, procedurally, what are the questions you have and how can you help us kind of sift through what all of this indicates?

Yeah, that's it, Governor Quinn.

There's a line between diplomacy and negotiation and then the process and procedure.