Rahimi Harrison-Grody
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I'm pretty sure, but I'm with you.
So we did see a crane in the air.
And it wasn't Crane Kenny, although he has been known to go in the air.
So we've got that going for us.
I also want to point out this.
I thought this was important.
This was from the Chicago Tribune's report of the rally you went to.
Rolling Meadows Mayor Laura Sanoika, and forgive me if I'm not saying that right.
Yeah, she said here, she goes, the proposed Indiana law would be a bad deal for workers.
She said, Indiana sales pitch is that you can build a world-class stadium by shortchanging the worker to build it.
Illinois doesn't work that way.
We know our families deserve better than a race to the bottom.
The key sticking point, as they report, in Illinois has been over how the state would legislatively or financially aid the Bears in their desire to build a stadium.
In particular, topics have evolved around assistance for infrastructure around Arlington Heights, property tax certainty for the team, which you don't have.
You don't have property tax.
Bears want it, though, don't they?
You have one property tax, one bill, and another the next, and this year is a perfect example of that in Cook County.
And payment of debt for the Soldier Field renovations done more than 20 years ago at the team's behest.
So that is on the table in this, is that that was new to us initially.
The mayor brought it up, Brandon Johnson, but that, yes, the $500 million or so that is still owed on those 2003 renovations is very much part of this discussion.