Rahimi Harrison-Grody

They didn't do that work for nothing.

For example, Austin Bonta, the mayor, was talking with us.

Yeah, Portage.

They were on the phone with us last week.

And additionally, Hammond, you don't put together site surveys and hire renderings and all of that.

That costs time and money.

I can't see George McCaskey doing all of that for no reason.

It's just my conjecture.

Now, I said this last week.

I will refrain that...

typically that is done first to then woo a team like the Bears to get the like they'll say oh we have all this land and there's been a lot of speculation from our listeners saying like oh well this is the only place they could find land Arlington Heights was the only place no

That's the point, is all these other municipalities come forward and they say, we have this to offer you.

And then there's a discussion about the taxes.

And that's also been, of course, the sticking point here.

The state of Illinois understands that it has to come in and backstop whatever could happen with the local entities.

That's how they see it working.

Cam Buckner told us that as well.

I'm just saying that that process is common.

It exists.

But what we haven't typically seen is