* Chicago Bears CEO Kevin Warren said during our spring break that the team wouldn’t need to decide whether to move to Arlington Heights or Indiana until “late spring, early summer,” following months of pressure on the General Assembly to immediately pass incentive legislation. Today, at an unrelated news conference the governor was asked for an update…

Reporter: Was there an update from your meeting, your team’s meeting with Republicans yesterday for the Bears. Because we have a moral obligation to ask-

Pritzker: Every time you see me, right? I mean every time you see me.

Look, this is all going through the legislature at this point. I mean that we already have on the table a pretty strong and, you know, I would describe it as more than just an outline. It’s a scaffolding of a deal. Like everybody understands what the pieces of this are.

And now, as you know, with 177 members of the General Assembly they all need to be in on the discussion about it and understand why this is good for the state of Illinois, why it’s good for the people that live in their districts and so on. So I think that is part of why.

I mean, you’re focusing on one meeting because it happens to be with a Republican leader, I think. But the reality is these conversations, and trust me, I’ve talked to Republicans too, these conversations have been going on for some time now. I’m not sure why all the attention on this particular meeting, but, there’s going to be a lot more discussion that goes on.

I would like the legislature to move faster, just because I think that will be good for everybody to get this done. We have a lot of things on the schedule that need to get done before the end of May, including, importantly, a balanced budget that I put forward. So I’d like to get this done before we ever get to that point.

[From Rich: It’s kinda odd that he would say this because one of the scheduled participants told me that yesterday’s meeting with Republican legislators was postponed by the governor’s office.

…Adding… The meeting was eventually held. My apologies.]