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Speaker 1: They said it wasn't for leverage.

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Speaker 2: Sure you think so. I always believe everything everyone says.

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Speaker 3: It is the Kendall and Casey Show. My name is

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Speaker 3: Casey Daniels. Rob Kendall has the day off. That is

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Speaker 3: Jim Okay. Let's talk about that open letter that the

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Speaker 3: president of the Chicago Bears sent out as they're still

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Speaker 3: trying to nail down a new stadium location for the

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Speaker 3: NFL team. He said, we spent years trying to build

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Speaker 3: a new home in Cook County. We invested significant time

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Speaker 3: and resources. They evaluated multiple sites and decided on Arlington Heights.

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Speaker 1: But now maybe not Arlington Heights.

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Speaker 4: So the Chicago Bears, I don't want to say they've

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Speaker 4: been cursed with their stadiums, but they've really never had

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Speaker 4: a great stadium for football. So let's go back in

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Speaker 4: history in the seventies the Bears. A lot of people

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Speaker 4: don't realize this. The Bears played every single week at

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Speaker 4: Wrigley Field for a long time. And you may sit

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Speaker 4: here and say, oh, that's gorgeous setting, historic Wrigley Field

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Speaker 4: right on the lake front. It's not a great stadium

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Speaker 4: for football at all. And so they end up moving

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Speaker 4: to Soldier Field again, looks like this gorgeous stadium. You've

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Speaker 4: got these beautiful Greek columns. It's this iconic, it's right

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Speaker 4: there on the lake. Soldier Field was an absolute dump

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Speaker 4: for decades. I mean, you'd go to Soldier and I've

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Speaker 4: been to Soldier Field back in the day before they

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Speaker 4: remodeled it, and I hate to say, but you were

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Speaker 4: always when you were always standing in like two inches

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Speaker 4: two inches of liquid was urine.

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Speaker 2: It was awful.

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Speaker 4: It was a disgusting stadium. Okay, we're gonna redo Soldier Field.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna modernize it, and they leave those beautiful Greek

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Speaker 4: of it. Everybody said it looked like a spaceship had

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Speaker 4: crashed into Soldier Field. So again, not the best situation. Okay, bears,

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Speaker 4: we're gonna fix it this time. We're gonna try and

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Speaker 4: work with the City of Chicago. Okay, City of Chicago

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Speaker 4: doesn't work with us, fine, we're gonna buy some property.

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Speaker 4: We're to buy the old racetrack in Arlington Heights and

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Speaker 4: we're going to build a new stadium in the suburbs. Okay,

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Speaker 4: Now Arlington Heights is jacking us around and that's not

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Speaker 4: working out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what we got? What have we got next? What

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Speaker 2: else is on the table? Northwest Indiana, Let's do it?

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Speaker 3: Well? They said they're going to evaluate opportunities throughout the

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Speaker 3: wider Chicago land region, including northwest Indiana. May I suggest

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Speaker 3: some lake front property right in front of Wolf Lake?

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Speaker 2: If you could go.

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Speaker 1: To a football game and then fish for a three

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Speaker 1: eyed fish?

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Speaker 4: You ever driven out eighty ninety four right at the

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Speaker 4: border this there's this lake called Wolf Lake, and the

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Speaker 4: backdrop around it is all this massive industry, whole plants

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Speaker 4: and mining and shipping in these huge ugly factories and refineries,

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Speaker 4: smoke stacks spewing out who knows what. And then you've

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Speaker 4: got this lake right there, and people are every single

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Speaker 4: time I've driven by it, and that's been a lot,

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Speaker 4: there are people fishing there, fishing every time I think

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Speaker 4: of that three eyed fish from the Simpsons that swims

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Speaker 4: in the water in front of their nuclear power plant

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Speaker 4: in Springfield. But my guess is there's plenty of really

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Speaker 4: cheap real estate in northwest Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So the team was informed by the Illinois State lawmakers

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Speaker 3: that the stadium project was not a priority.

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Speaker 1: For them in twenty six.

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Speaker 2: So, look, I'm torn on it.

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Speaker 1: Indiana.

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Speaker 4: Good on these lawmakers for finally telling these billionaire rich

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Speaker 4: money being spent on stadiums. But the general and that's

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Speaker 4: my opinion, I fully support that position. But the vast

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Speaker 4: majority of the population just want their Bears to stay

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Speaker 4: in Chicago, and they're totally fine with taxpayer dollars being

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Speaker 4: spent on it. But right now the politicians can't come

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Speaker 4: and so the Bears are going to do what they're

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Speaker 4: They're going to look in the Chicago suburbs of northwest Indiana.

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Speaker 4: Who knows they might look in southern Wisconsin at this point.

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Speaker 3: As long as the stadium is sponsored by the Hell

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Speaker 4: The billboard that you see on the interstates right there

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Speaker 4: in northwest Indiana that says hell is Real.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So Governor Mike Braun, he was eager to jump

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Speaker 1: He says, this is Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he said, the Chicago Bears recognize Indiana's pro business climate,

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Speaker 3: and I'm ready to work with them to build a

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Speaker 3: this move would deliver a major economic boost, create jobs,

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Speaker 3: and bring another premier NFL franchise to the Hoosier state.

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Speaker 1: Let's get it done.

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Speaker 3: And of course we have to talk about tax abatements

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Speaker 3: and who's actually going to pay for the stadium, because

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Speaker 3: we know the history here in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Who actually pays for things we do?

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Speaker 4: The tax bears pay for it, and I'm sure Mike

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Speaker 4: Broun and the legislature will pony right up to the

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Speaker 4: Chicago Bears with some sweetheart deal to give them anything.

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Speaker 2: They want to come to Indiana.

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Speaker 4: The other part of this, though, too, are all these

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Speaker 2: That are the pearl clutching.

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Speaker 4: That's going on with They've got the vapor the thought

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Speaker 4: that their beloved Chicago Bears are they may move out

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Speaker 4: of the glorious state of Illinois. Let's me grow up

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Speaker 4: for come on, just grow up. Do you know how

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Speaker 4: many NFL teams don't play in the cities on which

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Speaker 4: they're named of San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: Forty nine Ers play in San Jose. Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're in Arlington, Washington, Commandovers, Commanders Landover, Maryland, Miami Dolphins,

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Speaker 4: Miami Gardens, Buffalo Bills, Orchard Park, the Los Angeles Rams,

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles Chargers they play in Inglewood, California. And wait

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Speaker 4: till I tell you about where the New York Giants

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Speaker 4: and the New York Jets play New Jersey in New Jersey.

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Speaker 4: And they've been playing for decades. So enough with the

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Speaker 4: pearl clutching that the Bears may move out of the

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Speaker 4: city of Chicago or god forbid, to the state of Indiana.

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Speaker 2: It's just the way modern sports works.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So they're not going to change their name to

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Speaker 3: the Gary Bears or the Indiana Bears.

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Speaker 2: Of course not.

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Speaker 1: They're still remain the Chicago They're still called.

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Speaker 2: The New York Giants in the New York Jets, even

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Speaker 2: though they play in New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a long process. Us.

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Speaker 3: Nothing has been decided, but the possibility of having two

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Speaker 3: NFL franchises in one.

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Speaker 1: State that's kind of fun. That is kind of fun.

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Speaker 3: The thing is, if you're in northern Indiana like you

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Speaker 3: and I were for many years.

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Speaker 1: That is Chicago Bear territory.

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Speaker 4: Look, we lived in the South Bend area for many,

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Speaker 4: many years, and to a large degree because the Chicago

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Speaker 4: mean there are plenty of suburbs in Chicago that where

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Speaker 4: it will take you a lot longer to drive downtown

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Speaker 4: to Chicago to downtown Chicago.

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Speaker 3: Here's something that will blow your mind, a mind ready

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Speaker 3: to be blown. They could build the stadium in Michigan City, Indiana.

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Speaker 1: And really confuse everything. He really was wa wait a minute, is.

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Speaker 3: Michigan City, Indiana for the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 4: That would be like the ultimate troll to everybody that

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Speaker 4: has this geographic love affair with their sports teams and

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Speaker 4: believes their stadiums have to be located in the city.

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Speaker 4: There nine outhn Michigan City, Indiana for the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 2: Sure, I'm all on board that train. Let's make it happen.

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Speaker 2: Let's make it happen.

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