Pat Quinn

That's a lot of money for roads and bridges and all that stuff to make sure people can get in and out of the stadiums.

And I don't think Indiana has done anything close to that.

They're talking in the Indiana proposal of raising the tolls on the Indiana toll road.

I don't think Bears fans will be excited to hear that.

So what we want to do in Illinois is have a good proposal that's fair to the Bears, but most of all fair to the taxpayers.

And that's what negotiating is.

You can't just give away the store if you're fighting for the public interest.

And

The Bears have to understand that as well.

Well, I think the number one issue is the taxpayers of Illinois should not in any way pay for the actual building of a stadium.

Governor Pritzker has said that.

I think everybody understands that that has to be paid for by the Bears and their investors.

The real issues now...

are the things around the stadium, how to get there, the roads and so on.

And Illinois has said, because this is a major development, not only about a stadium, but a retail commercial housing development around the stadium,

We're willing as a state to put up reasonable money to help infrastructure, to help the way of people to get to and from there.

And Illinois does have a capital budget separate from the regular everyday budget of paying for schools and health care and police and so on.

But we have a capital budget where we've invested in highways and bridges and everything related to infrastructure.

And we have a lot of money in that budget right now.

Matter of fact, the road budget, I think, is about $3 billion.