He went thru the timeline of when the Chicago city council and Illinois state legislature were in session to secure funding from. IIRC, he said the final deadline was something like late-summer/early-fall of 2025 to get that done.
And even if they do the Arlington Heights development, there will still be things that need to be sorted out with the government entities at the city, county and state level. I'm sure there will need to be public infrastructure upgrades that need to be planned and budgeted for (the family won't have to pay for a lot of that, I'd think). The new 2025-26 fiscal year for Illinois begins July 1st (Governor signs off in June 2025). If the family really believes construction will begin in mid to late '25 then the final plan pretty much needs to be a done deal now. That only leaves ~6 months until the new fiscal year begins... the budgeting process for these infrastructure things can't wait until the 11th hour. Government (at any level) simply doesn't work that way. I'd have to believe there is a final deal/plan as far as the family is concerned right now. They know what they are going to do now. If they don't, then this thing (no matter where they build) will probably be a 2026-27 date for beginning the project.
I agree. Unless they have two fully developed plans. One for the city and one for AH. But the city is a moving object. They can't have plans for that because they keep moving locations. You have a 3-6 month planning (at the least) timeframe to research and develop plans for each location. AH hasn't moved. Hopefully they have plans for that along with whatever new location of the week they want in the city
Has anyone even looked at the old hospital site? Try fitting the existing Soldier Field in there. It's a very tight fit. Thwy'll have trains brushing one wall of the stadium and residential buildings very near the opposite side. I just don't see how that site can work, it's just too narrow. Forget about going with a bigger stadium, you'll have to move the public transport rails as well as residential buildings. I tried to GIMP an overlay but I stink at GIMP, so here's a rough outline of Soldier Field on the old hospital site. They'd have to build smaller, not bigger.
Has anyone even looked at the old hospital site? Try fitting the existing Soldier Field in there. It's a very tight fit. Thwy'll have trains brushing one wall of the stadium and residential buildings very near the opposite side. I just don't see how that site can work, it's just too narrow. Forget about going with a bigger stadium, you'll have to move the public transport rails as well as residential buildings. I tried to GIMP an overlay but I stink at GIMP, so here's a rough outline of Soldier Field on the old hospital site. They'd have to build smaller, not bigger.
To me that whole Michael Reese sight as a ploy to get the city to move on his "most beautiful view" on the planet earth lakefront site is just utterly transparent, it is embarrassing. That was a head scratcher from the beginning. And I thought the infatuation with the lakefront was a headscratcher.
