Mark Grote

There's going to be traffic studies needed.

You're going to have to figure out what's going on in that land.

You're going to have to figure out

The structure of the public financing, you're going to have to work with the Northwest Indiana Stadium Authority to find the process of getting all the revenue figured out and all the money and where it's coming from and where it's going.

You're going to have to eventually go to the league and you're going to have to meet with the stadium committee.

You're going to have to meet separately with the finance committee.

So when I talk about this long checklist here that needs to be checked before we put out that checklist.

The Bears are going to Indiana headline.

You understand that it's a long way away.

And you understand that right now, the next process in this or the next step in this process is the people in Illinois deciding how urgent they want to be about this.

Do they want to call an emergency session here to hammer this out?

Do they want to call the Bears bluff and say, well, we'll get back to this in November?

There's a lot here.

And so the layers of this, it's going to be interesting to see how lawmakers here within this state respond to what's come out here today, which has created, by design, a lot of quick and immediate noise with the statement that they put out this morning.

Right.

Well, and that they would go through by trying to check a bunch of those boxes that I listed and more.

I think it's really fascinating because I think this week after the legislature adjourned early Monday morning, you've had a lot of people saying a lot of things on a lot of different platforms and you're trying to sift through it all.

And one of the things that is hard to figure out is you've got Illinois lawmakers saying our primary goal is to take care of the Illinois taxpayer and the bears can, you know,

Not their words exactly, but they can go screw if they think that they're our top priority with what the things we're trying to get done in the state.

And that's fair enough.