As reported in the Vancouver Sun: Vancouver taxpayers are being asked to cough up another $21.9 million in Olympic-related cost overruns. This time it relates mostly to finishing the city’s affordable housing commitment in the Southeast False Creek development. If approved at Thursday’s council committee on city services and budgets, it will bring to about …
No Games organizer Bob Quellos asks “Where’s the accountability.” Watch this CBS News clip to see how many times the Mayor lied to us when he promised there would be no risk to the taxpayers. Watch also as our clueless Alderman sputter and protest that were misled and misinformed. No Games Chicago has been warning …
Three delegates from No Games Chicago went to the world headquarters of the International Olympic Committee this evening in Lausanne, Switzerland. We came with copies of our “Book of Evidence”which has 160 pages of news reports and articles from the past five years backing up our four main reasons why Chicago should not get the …
On Sunday, June 14 a small group of No Games organizers left Chicago to fly seven time zones to the east to reach Lausanne, Switzerland. Our intention is to meet with the International Olympic Committee to tell them why Chicago should not be awarded the 2016 games. Read all about our visit on our special …
As reported in Crain’s Chicago Business: The city of Chicago announced Friday that it has been forced to send layoff notices to 1,504 unionized employees, job losses it claims could have been avoided if union leaders would have agreed to bargain on certain contract concessions. While the cuts were expected, the total number tops the …
As reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, Up to 1,000 Chicago Public Schools non-classroom employees will lose their jobs this year under a reorganization to save $100 million. About half the layoffs will hit central office — 27 percent of employees there — in the next two weeks, while another 500 will be cut from citywide …
As reported on the Progress Illinois blog: Over the past month, Mayor Daley’s tax increment financing (TIF) system has attracted some much-needed scrutiny. First came the news that the city is forking over $3.8 million to insurance giant Willis Group Holdings to refurbish their swank new Sears Tower headquarters (despite the fact that the company’s …
No Games went on NBC News to refute the claim by aroundtherings.com that Chicago’s bid for the 2016 is on top.
Ari Fleischer has been hired by the United States Olympic Committee as a communications consultant. From Phillip Hersh’s Chicago Tribune blog – Fleischer not only spent some 2 1/2 years – January, 2001 to July, 2003 — as George W. Bush’s press secretary, but he later was implicated in the investigation into the outing of …
As reported in the Chicago Tribune: As Chicago awaits judgment of international Olympics evaluators, the city’s bid committee has been hard at work in Washington lining up White House backing and employing a well-connected lobbying firm to lay the groundwork for shaking loose federal dollars in the event the 2016 Summer Games come to northern …