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Home » No Games Chicago

Tag: No Games Chicago

Posted inColumns & Opinion

These gold-medal dissenters stood up to Daley’s Olympic boondoggle dreams

by Ben Joravsky August 3, 2016August 18, 2021

Whereas most of the city’s political and civic elite were ready to lead us off the financial cliff.

Posted inBlogs

Dumke beats mayor’s lawyers in cop spying case

by Ben Joravsky October 17, 2015August 18, 2021

After months of requests and an order from the state, Mayor Emanuel’s police department finally coughs up a few details about its undercover police spy investigations of ordinary citizens.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Records show Chicago police spied on Olympics protesters

by Ben Joravsky August 19, 2015August 18, 2021

Through FOIA requests, activist confirms that cops investigated foes of the games in 2009.

Any day now taxpayers are sure to revolt over what they’re paying into the tax increment financing program.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

TIFs: the tax bill you have to pay but never see

by Ben Joravsky December 12, 2012August 19, 2021

TIFs: the tax bill you have to pay but never see

Posted inBlogs

How we lost those games

by Michael Miner July 26, 2011August 19, 2021

New e-book analyzes defeat of Chicago’s Olympics bid

Green Party candidate Tom Tresser; Democratic nominee Toni Preckwinkle
Posted inNews & Politics

Post-Stroger Politics

by Ben Joravsky October 21, 2010August 19, 2021

With everyone’s favorite punching bag out of the way, a look at the problems facing any new Cook County Board president

Posted inBlogs

We Win!

by Ben Joravsky October 2, 2009August 19, 2021

Believe me: losing the Olympics bid is a very, very good thing.

Posted inBlogs

I’m really not the only Olympics skeptic out there

by Ben Joravsky July 21, 2009August 19, 2021

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 […]

Posted inBlogs

IOC, are you listening?

by Alison True April 10, 2009August 19, 2021

From Ben’s mouth to the IOC’s ear: members of the Olympic committee reportedly promised to read Joravsky’s Reader article telling them to take their Games to some other city.

Posted inBlogs

Olympic March

by Ben Joravsky March 18, 2009August 19, 2021

The opponents to the Olympics plan an April 2 march on City Hall.

Posted inBlogs

1/31–Free talk on Chicago’s Olympic bid

by James Ewert January 30, 2009August 19, 2021

1/31–Free public discussion on Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid

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