Ben Joravsky covers the issues surrounding the demolition of the Michael Reese Hospital site in the current Reader. A group of preservationists has been making the rounds of the neighborhood Olympic forums I wrote about last week, passing out flyers and pestering officials with questions. They’re not officially opposed to the Olympics, but anyone wondering …
The Chicago Department of Community Development has released the 2008 reports for its 162 Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts. Thanks to TIF researcher, Hugh Devlin, No Games can report the total balance of funds in the TIF accounts at the end of 2008 was $1,404,518,702 – let’s call it $1.4 billion. This summary was prepared …
As reported in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago has awarded contracts totaling $11.17 million to two politically connected firms for the demolition work on the Michael Resse Hospital site. Let’s see, $86 million to purchase, $11 million for demo work plus $1.3 million for site control plus tens of millions for clean-up. Can we now all …
It was four against two as the 2016 Committee sent four senior members of their staff to squared off against No Games organizer Tom Tresser and Friends of the Parks President Erma Tranter at the Lake View Citizens’ Council Olympic forum Monday night. Tranter presented a number of thorny issues about the bid’s reliance on …
Check out this 8 minute documentary by Lisa Jacobson from Northwestern University. Burnham:2016 from Lisa Jacobson on Vimeo.
No Games went on NBC News to refute the claim by aroundtherings.com that Chicago’s bid for the 2016 is on top.
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 …
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 …
Lynn Becker writes in the April 23rd Chicago Reader that the bulldozers are coming to the Michael Reese Hospital campus. On June 4, Mayor Daley will be recognized by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., as one of their “Visionaries in Sustainability” for his “long dedication to a sustainable urban environment.” Yet within a …