Marshall Harris

This would let the bears lock in long term property tax rates for Arlington Park to head off what some estimates suggest would be a property tax bill on that property of between one hundred and two hundred million dollars.

but that the state is really not going to spend money on a new stadium for the Bears.

And also said that the Bears should consider affordability as they think about their ask, because as the governor pointed out, a lot of people can't afford to attend a Bears game.

I can't.

I mean, I suppose if I had a dictionary in front of me, Layla, I would be able to sort of parse the difference between appease and mollify.

I'm going to stick with mollify because that's the word the governor used, and I don't want to, like, put words in his mouth.

But he certainly is creating the impression or is telling us that

that at least privately the bears have been trying to soften the statement that they made, which I would admit is, you know, is probably, there are gaps in that statement, uh, from the bears that are probably big enough to get Cole commit through if you work hard enough.

Um,

But thank you.

I've been working on that.

But but but it seems as though what the governor is trying to communicate is the bears haven't packed.

And there isn't, at least at this moment, is of, you know, what what time is it as of twelve thirty four in the afternoon on Friday, the 20th of February?

There's not some like.

late-night move like the Colts out of Baltimore to try to scurry across the state line.

So, I mean, we'll see.

We haven't heard independently from the Bears about that.

And so it remains to be seen whether they're genuinely going to walk that back, although I don't believe, and I haven't checked my inbox recently, I don't believe that Bears have issued any additional statements beyond what they said yesterday.

I asked the governor today if he felt the Bears were negotiating in bad faith, because you're absolutely right.

They are playing mom against dad here, and I'll let you all decide who's who in this scenario.