Among plenty of other issues, of course.

New Soldier Field on the lakefront: would that have gotten some of those "no" votes over to "yes" ? At the very least, that location is currently not generating property tax revenue and wouldn't change. Almost zero chance that anyone will change that within my lifetime.

Dunno exactly how much the state was being asked to kick in at Arlington but (again, totally AFAIK) it was going to be mainly water/sewer. Traffic? Arlington Park was already there for years; negligible effects AFAIK. Plus, there was some thought to constructing a village of bars and restaurants: maybe even some apartments and condo's ? IOW, expanding the Arlington Heights tax base ??

Reading between the lines on what some local political-heads have been writing... ol' Brandon had just enough support to take his ball and go home once it wasn't going to be on the lakefront. And Fatazz Pritzker couldn't counteract that in time.


Totally MHO. All I know is what I read in the newspapers...