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 …
It was a blistering day in the sun at the annual Newberry Library Bughouse Square debates on Saturday as speakers took to their soap box sized podiums to debate topics from abortion to separation of church and state to toxic artificial turf soccer fields in our parks to political prisoners. Over 100 onlookers cheered No …
Check out Steve Rhode’s online column at NBC Chicago: Now that the city is just a few months away from finding out if it will be awarded the 2016 Olympics, an actual real debate has erupt among taxpayers about whether they actually, really want it. Isn’t this backwards?Yes, but if City Hall and local Olympic …
No Games appeared on “Chicago Tonight” on Thursday, July 23. The 17 minute segment dealt with the public meetings around the 2016 bid and the outcry for more honesty and truth-telling by the 2016 Committee. Are YOUR questions answered yet?
With all the talk about the mysterious state of the 2016 Olympic bid’s finances, the Illinois CPA Society has published a very timely article, “Olympic Risk.” that looks at the costs and supposed benefits of the games. The author quotes No Games organizer Tom Tresser along with Dr. Will Jennings, a research fellow at the …
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 …
As reported in Lake Effect News: Even if Chicago 2016 had resurrected Frank Sinatra from the grave to sing “2016, Chicago is” at the end of “My Kind of Town” that was playing on the sound system before the start of Monday’s community meeting for 39th and 40th Ward residents, it still wouldn’t have convinced …
We get a fair amount of inquiries on WHO we are at No Games Chicago. You have to understand that our volunteers are sometimes reluctant to publicly identify themselves for fear of retribution. When three of us went to Switzerland on June 15 we were asked a number of times “Who is paying you?” It …