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by Matthew Blake
7:29pm
Fri May 25, 2012

After NATO Summit, Murmurs Of Chicago Olympics

After months of local government, and media, focus on Chicago hosting the two-day NATO summit, it might be time for the city’s political class to focus on more parochial concerns like the reconfiguring of public housing, a highly possible teacher’s strike, and the neighborhood impact of state and city government budget cuts.

On the other hand, the city could just re-live 2009 and put a lazer-like focus on getting the Olympics. Read more »

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by Josh Kalven
10:16am
Mon Oct 5, 2009

Sun-Times: Does Olympic Loss "Mark The End Of The Daley Era?"

Richard Daley

Over the weekend, the Sun-Times' Fran Spielman summed up the incredible amount of work awaiting Chicago Mayor Richard Daley now that his Olympics obsession has faded:

After spending his political capital on the Olympics at the expense
of higher priorities, the ...

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by Adam Doster
2:33pm
Fri Oct 2, 2009
4 comments

Amy Dean On Chicago: "We Need To See More Benefits For Real People"

Olympics

After Chicago lost its bid for the 2016 Olympics, author Amy Dean expressed skepticism that the benefits of the proposed development projects would have ever reached the city's working people.

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by Progress Illinois
10:44am
Fri Oct 2, 2009

Chicago Olympic Bid Fails (w/Reactions from Quigley, Giannoulias, CFL, Preckwinkle, PURE, Gov. Quinn, Hamos)

Olympics

No one expected Chicago 2016 to get booted in the first round of Olympics bidding this morning in Copenhagen.  But that's what happened:

Chicago has been eliminated in the first round of International
Olympic Committee voting, and Tokyo was eliminated in the second ...

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by Josh Kalven
9:38am
Fri Oct 2, 2009
1 comment

Kirk And The Olympics

IL-U.S. Senate

As Media Matters documented yesterday, "the conservative media have opened a new front from which to attack
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's support of Chicago's
bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics: smearing the city as unfit to
host the Olympic Games, ...

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by Josh Kalven
10:55am
Thu Sep 10, 2009
2 comments

An Odd Choice From Ald. Smith

Olympics

The Reader's Mick Dumke said all that can really be said about yesterday's Chicago City Council meeting.  In a string of glowing speeches, alderman after alderman blessed the Olympics host city agreement -- which exposes taxpayers to unlimited financial liability if the 2016 ...

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by Angela Caputo
5:44pm
Tue Sep 8, 2009
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A (Small) Step Towards Olympics Transparency

Olympics

The City Council's Finance Committee signed off
on an ordinance today that would provide the 2016 Olympic Bid Committee
with a taxpayer-funded blank check if Chicago indeed lands the 2016
games and exceeds its privately-funded budget. In what Ald. Manny
Flores (1st Ward) ...

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by Adam Doster
11:45am
Fri Sep 4, 2009
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An Olympic Week

Chicago City Council

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will pick the host of the 2016 Olympics in less than a month. With the bid process now entering the home stretch, it's been a busy week in Olympics-related news. Flores' Oversight Ordinance Back in June, Ald. Manny Flores ...

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by Josh Kalven
11:46am
Mon Aug 24, 2009

Greising: Olympic Secrecy "Doesn't Smell Very Good"

Olympics

This month, Tribune business columnist David Greising has written two pieces urging more disclosure on the part of Chicago's Olympic bid committee and, in doing so, spurred a lengthy editorial from his paper on the topic.  On Friday, he appeared on Chicago Tonight's "...