Gin Kilgore, acting executive director of Friends of the Parks, is not about to go along with, what she called Bears President Kevin Warren’s “Buy now. This deal won’t last” sales pitch.

“We need to slow down...Involve a lot of stakeholders…We need a lot of scrutiny because this isn’t just about the lakefront…It’s about public financing. It’s about community development...

When I think about how long it takes to build a park or a school, it just boggles the mind. That just because you’re a billionaire or a power broker that, all of a sudden, you can snap your fingers and say, `This is the timeline….That the norms and the rules don’t quite apply to us as they do with other people.’ That’s the part that has, just really honestly, stunned me…It seems like we have to, `Buy now or you’ll lose this deal forever.”

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