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 …
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 …
Wow. Talk about an angry and heart-felt column. You’ve got to read all of Rick Telander’s column today. The headline says it all: “Chicago doesn’t deserve the 2016 Olympics. Blantly corrupt of simply stupid? City unworthy of 2016 games.” There are times when you get sent to your room without dessert. Without dinner, even. This …
The Reader reports that the plans for the 2016 games keeps shifting and the community keeps loosing as those plans shift. Back in 2007, when Mayor Daley was unveiling his Olympic plans, he promised the games would bring a swimming pool to the west side. And not just any swimming pool, but a $78 million …
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 …