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It's time for Five On It. Rahimi Harrison-Roney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104.3 The Score. I got five on it. Number one. Over the weekend, Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren provided the following update to Crane's Chicago business about the team's effort to build a new stadium. Quote, we continue to work with Illinois leadership and appreciate the progress being made. Unquote. So that is Kevin Warren to Crane's Chicago business. So here's the question. Do you feel like you've learned anything about where the Bears stand in their push to build a new stadium?
What updates did the Bears President provide about the new stadium?
That that was that was the funniest unintentionally funny line I've heard in a while. We are still talking to them. Oh, that's interesting because you're out here being like, well, this is the most meaningful efforts in our stadium planning efforts to date efforts efforts. And you were talking about Indiana. And then it's like, well, we don't have a set location. Well, we don't have everything hammered out yet. The state does. The state is like, hey, here's how we're paying for this and X, Y and Z. To an extent, we still don't know what the split is of the revenue and how we get paid back and all of that stuff. And all of that is a big all of that. So. I think I think what happened here was they had to walk it back a bit and they continue to walk it back.
And this is a statement acknowledging that they're still very much in talks with the state of Illinois. You know why? Because there's another meeting scheduled with the ILGA for this week. We get we get to do this all over again this week, Marshall. So here's where I am. Here's what I've learned. The Bears want to get a stadium built on their terms, but understand that it's not going to be completely on their terms. I don't think they want to build in Indiana. I think they want to build at Arlington Heights, but they understand if... The Arlington Heights thing doesn't work out. They will build in Indiana. I think it's that simple, but not simple because I still don't know what their financial threshold is for how much they're willing to put into the stadium point blank period.
As far as having in Arlington Heights versus having in Indiana, we know about the $2 billion of their own money. If it's an Indiana thing. But I think, you know, push comes to shove. They want to build in Arlington Heights and they're going to do everything in their power to make sure that that happens. And if it's outside of their power to get it done in a way that they don't think financially they can do it and it makes sense. Then, yeah, they'll end up in Indiana. But that's all I've really learned. They've let everybody know publicly, privately. There's no secrets. Indiana and Illinois are vying to have the Bears build in those two places. What I learned, or maybe had confirmed, we collectively had confirmed, is...
Kevin Warren and the Bears hurt everybody's feelings in the state of Illinois when they released that statement on Thursday boasting the progress that they had made in Indiana. Everybody got rattled by that. And so Kevin Warren and the Bears came back and said, paraphrasing, we like you too, Illinois. We have renewed focus in Arlington Heights. And it's what I've been talking about the entire time Although, it's going to go to the House this week, as Layla said, for Indiana. Then it goes back for a quick amendment vote for the Senate for some of the amendments that we talked about last Thursday. And then the governor will sign it probably on Friday. And that means that Illinois still has time to come up with a deal.
So I've learned that everything is still sort of the same right now, other than the fact that Kevin Warren hurt everybody's feelings. Number two. What's the biggest question you have for Bears General Manager Ryan Poles and Coach Ben Johnson tomorrow when they speak at the NFL Combine? Hi, Lele here. Hey, Lele! First-time listener, long-time caller. What would you like? What would you like to know? If you get my joke, I talk more than I listen. Okay, so...
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