Marshall Harris

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Hey, Layla, how's it going today?

Good to be with you here.

Yeah, he did.

He was here at Oak Park and River Forest High School talking about a legislative initiative he has about cell phones in schools.

But, of course, reporters can't be stopped if they have a question they need to get to him.

And today the question really was about the Chicago Bears and the status of negotiations there.

The governor told us that indeed there have been conversations back and forth at sort of a high staff level between the bears and the governor's people.

And a lot of those conversations have been.

apparently sort of walking back that statement that the governor has talked about.

He first mentioned it yesterday when he was with reporters down in Collinsville.

The statement from the Bears that talked about how the proposal that passed the House committee yesterday setting up the stadium authority was like the most significant development in their search for a new stadium, and they were committing to finishing the due diligence statement.

The governor, as you heard yesterday, and he said it again a little bit today, his nose was a little out of joint that the Bears' statement would have talked effusively about Indiana and the work that's been done there, but said nothing about the three hours of talks that they engaged in in Illinois and the fact that the Bears asked the Illinois leaders to put off consideration of the property tax measure that the Bears say they need for the Arlington Heights property.

I'm a lot of the conversations today according to the governor over the last 24 hours have been the bear saying well

We didn't mean that we're moving to Indiana, and we really only did that, we only put that statement out to mollify, was the word the governor used, the state of Indiana, which has made noises that they didn't really want to move forward with this unless they got some kind of a commitment from the Bears organization, and that statement apparently represented that.

So I guess a lot of the conversation that's been happening now was, well, what we really meant was blank, and

And what we really didn't mean to suggest that we're moving to Indiana or whatever.

And the governor again repeated that, you know, he's willing to help with infrastructure and he's not opposed to the it's called the pilot bill, the payment in lieu of taxes bill.