As reported in the Sun-Times: One of Mayor Daley’s closest allies on the City Council has been wearing a wire and secretly recording “public officials and real estate developers” for more than a year, a City Hall bombshell that was revealed in a federal court document Thursday. Ald. Isaac “Ike” Carothers (29th) was charged Thursday …
As part of the “Great Chicago Places & Spaces” events of last week, Chicago 2016 and the Chicago Architecture Foundation sponsored a bus tour showing off the sites in our public parks and other sites that will be appropriated, ripped up and given to the 2016 games. We sent along a No Games organizer to …
No Games opposes the bid for the 2016 Olympics for three major reasons. The first two are financial and environmental. The third set of reasons are moral and civil. We see the games causing displacement and gentrification. But there are also serious civil liberties abuses that accompany the coming of the games. Here is a …
As reported in the Chicago Tribune… The Chicago Park District will save $700,000 over the summer by trimming hours for the city’s 800 or so lifeguards, said Park District spokeswoman Marta Juaniza. Lifeguard times will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. instead of 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Swimmers face fines if they enter the …
You can always trust the government when they tell you that the Olympics will entirely funded by private investment and that the tax payers will not be soaked for the private five-ring party, right? Well the 2012 London summer games just made a big WHOOPS! -as reported on Regen Daily: The 2012 Olympic Village development …
The heavy hand of the 2016 Olympic Committee was present at a community meeting last night in Lincoln Park. A Planning Task Force of the Lincoln Park Advisory Council was to make a recommendation to the Council to oppose the placement of the 30,000 seat Olmpic tennis venue in the park on the site of …
Crain’s Real Estate News reports the results of a meeting at The Chicago School of Real Estate at Roosevelt University that covered the proposed 2016 Olympic Village. This project is estimated to cost $1 billion (we think that is a grossly UNDER estimated number) and will be placed on the site of Michael Reese Hospital, …
Ken Vogels writes in the online newsmagazine, Politico, that the Obama White house is poised to lobby heavily for the 2016 Olympic Games. The Obama White House is playing an unprecedented role in the bid to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago, with top adviser Valerie Jarrett spearheading an effort that draws on the …
In an interview for The Irish Times, Pat Hickey, the head of the Olympic Council of Ireland and the chair of the European Olympic Committee, predicted that if President Obama personally pitches the IOC in October that Chicago will be awarded the 2016 summer games. As the world sinks into the Great Depression II, the …