Peter Navarro

What's next in our relationship?

And so, look, like we're going to be in this period now where there's going to be kind of things happening on parallel tracks.

The advancement of the project in Indiana with people in Illinois, politicians in particular.

publicly speaking about what they think is next for the state of Illinois to try to keep the Bears.

And we got one of those examples this week.

Representative Cam Buckner joined WGN and Josh Freidman to kind of answer a bunch of questions on where this might head next.

And all of this stuff, I think you and I are both on the same page where it's like every time a governor or a mayor or a representative speaks,

Yeah, I mean, look, that registered to me as very candid criticism from a representative who was trying his damnedest to be very helpful to getting the Bears' wishes granted in Springfield during the spring session.

And Cam Buckner, I think, let you in on two things there.

Number one, the fact that the Bears were trying to essentially –

reach a position of strength by playing to all parties, right?

And in so doing, sometimes you make other people a little suspicious of what your intentions are and what your motives are, and it gets a little bit iffy.

And so I think that clearly was something that obstructed the Bears' path to getting something done in Illinois.

Again, that's a very candid criticism of Kevin Warren.

It's a candid criticism of Karen Murphy, of their respective teams that the Bears have working on the stadium project.

And then you get at the end, Cam, saying essentially that we feel like we're in a good place now.

And the Bears have made it clear that while the Indiana wheels are in motion, they still want to try to get something done in Illinois.

And so hopefully the next step of this whole thing is having discussions that are fruitful towards what do you really need?

What do you really want?

How can we make it happen?