The Bears absolutely need to get into the mix.

Are they in the mix or are they being delusional about where things stand with their stadium?

Paris Shuts is incredible.

You may remember him from WTTW.

He now works for Fox 32.

He's been putting out all sorts of cool stuff on social media as well.

He is live here in studio, joining us on the Circusort and Casino Hotline, kind of.

He's here in the room.

You've been doing all sorts of work on this particular story.

Update the score listener who's like, I feel like things are moving in the right direction.

Are they?

Well, no.

You know, to use the football analogy, it's zero yards in a cloud of dust right now.

I called the governor's office this week, and I said, so have the bears sat down with you and had a meeting in the last few months?

And the spokesperson said no. So they came out with this announcement on Friday. We're solely focused on Ellington Nights. We're going to get this bill passed in Springfield to help us out with property taxes a little bit. And we can't do it until we get that. And then we're going to put shovels in the ground this year. but this is kind of what's been going on for two years here.

A lot of proclamations in the media that, well, they're this close to getting these votes, to get some help to build their stadium. And yet, when I talk to lawmakers, they say, well, it's news to us because they haven't really lobbied us. they're not doing the things they need to do to make this palatable for us.

You hear the governor, you hear... to us because they haven't really lobbied us. They're not doing the things they need to do to make

this palatable for us. You hear the governor, you hear legislative leaders going on TV saying

they're worth $8.5 billion. I don't want to give any taxpayer help to an organization that

seems like it's doing just fine. So the notion that they're going to

get something through in the fall session, and here's what your listeners need to know, they couldn't

get that bill through in the regular session. Now the rules change in fall. You need a three-fifths

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