Thomas McDermott

I've been in politics for 22 years.

I know a hit piece when I read it.

That was a hit piece.

I knew what the intention of it.

I mean, obviously...

People at the Chicago Tribune, you know, they wrote that article, they approved that article.

They're afraid that Hammond is a legitimate threat.

They're afraid that the Chicago Bears are going to choose to move their home games to Hammond, Indiana.

And they went through and came up with, you know, a storyline that's caught fire.

I mean, there's a lot of people talking about the fact that I live in a toxic city and it's

It's unbelievable.

It's, you know, it's not fair, but it's politics.

And, you know, we're trying to land an $8 billion company from Illinois.

And obviously there's, you know, people in Illinois that aren't happy to see that.

So I think that's where it was coming from.

But I do want to reiterate the Las Maras golf course, the Wolf Lake area, Christine.

It's been reclaimed.

In fact, on the last March, when the city of Hammond reclaimed that slide keep and built a golf course on top of it, we received an award from the United Nations.

And, you know, that was in, like, 1993 for the environmental reclamation that we did there.

It's clean as a whistle.