State Senator Bill Cunningham

I think we lose sight of the fact that there is nothing stopping the Bears from breaking ground in Arlington Heights tomorrow and building a stadium.

They can do that.

There's no law prohibiting them from doing that.

The village of Arlington Heights wants them.

They can do that.

The problem is they don't want to do that unless they get a massive tax break from the state of Illinois.

So they've introduced the political complication to this matter.

You know, I know people get frustrated with the politics of this.

The Bears have introduced politics to this.

They're a private business.

They can build a stadium there tomorrow.

They've chosen not to do that without the public support.

That injects politics into the situation.

As far as Indiana is concerned, I'm just not sure.

I visited the site.

It's a 25-minute drive from my house in Beverly.

It looks complicated, but I'm not a structural engineer or an environmental engineer.

I don't know how viable it is.

I think there are plenty of legislators who do think it's a bluff, and I think that did contribute to legislators not wanting to rush in and come up

with some solution.