Whereas most of the city’s political and civic elite were ready to lead us off the financial cliff.
Tag: Chicago 2016 Committee
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The Olympic Myth
A European report concludes that the games do more harm than good for local tourism.
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I’m really not the only Olympics skeptic out there
Interesting development in the coverage of Chicago’s Olympics campaign in today’s Tribune: the no-games crowd got about as much space as the pro-games crowd. The Trib‘s account of last night’s Olympics forum in Lakeview quoted Tom Tresser, one of the founders of No Games Chicago, on an equal footing with officials from the 2016 bid […]