RALLY / PROTEST / MARCH TODAY – Thursday, April 2, 2009 SHUT DOWN THE OLYMPIC BID Say ‘NO’ to the Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid 5pm, Federal Plaza (50 W. Adams) Download rally_flyer-letterDownload rally_flyer-spanish Download rally_press_release Download fact sheet on Olympic cost_overruns The International Olympic Committee will be in town from April 2-8th to evaluate Chicago’s …
They have $40 million to dupe Chicago into approving the games. Click here to donate to No Games via PayPal. We’d like to take an ad out in the Sun-Times, print up flyers, rent sound equipment for a rally, pay for a direct mailling and send a videographer to Vancouver to interview people who know …
Talk about buyer’s remorse! The cost of the 2010 winter games in Vancouver are spiralling out of control. The 2016 Committee says it will only cost $4 billion + to do the larger summer games seven years from now. Can’t you just see that screaming headlines “2016 Games – $10 Billion and Rising.” Wake up, …
Chicago 2016 wants the State of Illinois to increase its financial guarantee for Chicago’s 2016 Summer Olympic Games bid. Bid officials want the state to increase its financial guarantee from the $150 million in taxpayer funds pledged in 2007 by former Governor Rod Blagojevich to $250 million, reports CBS Chicago. And the Governor has agreed. …
Ticket prices for the proposed 2016 Olympic Games will truly be Olympia, according to the Chicago Tribune. You’ll have to shell out between $520 to $1,645 for the Opening Ceremony and pay $28 to $486 for “prime events.” Come on, Chicago, wise up. These games will bankrupt us. But if you can afford $1,645 for …
A report by Prof. Victor Matheson, “Mega Events: The effect of the world’s biggest sporting events on local, regional and national economies” exposes the lies told to us by the 2016 Olympic Committee. They claim the 2016 games will bring in billions. In the report, published in 2006 by the Department of Economics at the …
The Chicago Tribune ran a great item on “Picking face of Games” looking at great suggestions for the Chicago Olympic mascot. Here are three of our favorites. Vote on your favorite or email us a sketch of your own idea – nogameschicago@gmail.com.