* Gov. JB Pritzker did a little trolling of the notoriously Illinois-hating Indiana trolls today. When asked about the Bears at an unrelated press conference, this is some of what he said…

I think I’m very interested to see how the people of Indiana, the voters of Indiana, feel about the massive increases in taxes that are being proposed about paying for a stadium in Indiana for the Chicago Bears. Do they want to raise their taxes to pay for a stadium in the state of Indiana for the Chicago Bears? We’ll see. So that’s a question for people who live in Indiana.

Here in Illinois, we continue to have really positive discussions with the Chicago Bears, and I think you’re going to see progress over time here. But importantly, you know, we want I’m a Chicago Bears fan. Believe very much that they ought to be based in Illinois, and I’m going to do everything I can without Harmon the taxpayers of the state of Illinois in the process of making sure that, you know, we can do everything we can to keep them in the state

More on the “absolute cornucopia of new taxes” proposed in Indiana is here.

* Pritzker also sounded very positive today about his mega projects bill, which could be heard in committee Thursday morning. The Bears want to use that legislation to help build their new complex….

Lots of conversation and agreement on everything, really, as far as I can tell with regard to a bill that provides this kind of, what they call tax certainty. But it’s, it’s a PILOT bill, as you pointed out. So it looks like, you know, they proposed a few changes over the last couple of weeks. There’s been really broad agreement about those.

And the the leaders of Arlington Heights and the surrounding communities all seem to be on board as well. So again, this is really, it’s in the legislature. The legislators themselves have to make decisions about this. But I think we were at a, you know, in a good place with regard to that bill.