As reported by the Provocateur: Reporting from the 44th, 46th, and 48th Ward Olympics Community Meeting Now, I went to another one of these a couple weeks back. The difference was that this particular “town hall” was put on entirely by the Chicago 2016 Olympic Committee. As such, this was something akin to a public …
He hasn’t asked for it, but we are awarding long-time political consultant and commentator Don Rose an honorary No Games Chicago membership for his August 17 column for the Daily Observer. A few weeks back an old friend called to say he could get me $25,000 from Very Important People if I would “blog in …
David Greising, the business reporter for the Chicago Tribune, made some excellent points today: “This is a good thing for our bid,” Pat Ryan was saying the other night, after Bronzeville neighborhood citizens grilled Olympics officials for nearly three hours about costs and risks of staging a Chicago Olympics. A root-canal look on his face, …
As reported by Greg Hinz in Crain’s Chicago Business: The giant agency that runs McCormick Place and Navy Pier has had to tap the state treasury to avoid defaulting on tens of millions of dollars of bond payments. Using a special provision in state law, the Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority last month quietly obtained …
As reported in the Chicago Tribune: Chicago’s final fundraiser for its 2016 Olympic bid drew the biggest crowd yet, but raised only about $5 million Wednesday evening, the lowest tally of three major events aimed at luring private cash. The sum was raised from 3,600 supporters, or more than 1,000 more than attended last year’s …
As reported in the Chicago Reader by Ben Joravsky: With Mayor Daley essentially asking for a blank check to pay for the Olympics, the taxpayers of Chicago could use a little boldness from their City Council. But Manny Flores, one of the few aldermen occasionally willing to stand up for good government, seems to be …
As reported on NBC Chicago’s web site: Folks from Tulsa to Pittsburgh, Minneapolis to Birmingham, even in Detroit, are lining up for to attract the 2020 Games as if America already lost out on 2016. The murmurs – and news stories – got so loud that the chief of the United States Olympic Committee issued …
As reported from the Chicago Tribune’s online blog “Clout Street” – Mayor Daley’s Chicago 2016 panel has no problem with committee member Michael Scott’s role developing a for-profit real estate project near a planned Olympic venue, according to a statement the organization released Tuesday night. Scott met with Olympic bid officials Tuesday to explain his …
As reported by the Chicago Tribune online: A veteran City of Chicago building inspector was arrested today on a charge of pocketing $1,000 from a contractor who was cooperating with authorities in an ongoing bribery probe. Jose Hernandez approved electrical wiring, plumbing and ventilation work at a single-family residence on South Throop Street even though …
As reported in The North Coast online journal: Vancouver professor and Olympics Resistance Network organizer Chris Shaw came to Chicago early this year at the request of No Games Chicago, and spoke of the immense public debt, destruction to public parks, and “frontal assault on civil liberties” that have been the results of Vancouver having …