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 …
The City of Chicago’s Inspector General, David Hoffman, today released a critical review of the parking meter deal and concluded that the deal was under-valued by at least $974 million! The report finds that if the City were to keep control of the parking-meter system and operate it under the same terms as the private …
As reported in the Chicago Sun-Times: City pension officials have been hit with subpoenas from a federal grand jury trying to determine how a start-up company co-owned by Mayor Daley’s nephew won $68 million in pension investments. The grand jury issued the subpoenas Wednesday, nearly two months after city pension officials refused to comply with …
As reported in the Sun-Times: One of Mayor Daley’s closest allies on the City Council has been wearing a wire and secretly recording “public officials and real estate developers” for more than a year, a City Hall bombshell that was revealed in a federal court document Thursday. Ald. Isaac “Ike” Carothers (29th) was charged Thursday …
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 set the record straight. The parks belong to the PEOPLE of Chicago – not to the Mayor, not to the 2016 Committee and not to the IOC.
No Games opposes the bid for the 2016 Olympics for three major reasons. The first two are financial and environmental. The third set of reasons are moral and civil. We see the games causing displacement and gentrification. But there are also serious civil liberties abuses that accompany the coming of the games. Here is a …
As reported in the Chicago Tribune… The Chicago Park District will save $700,000 over the summer by trimming hours for the city’s 800 or so lifeguards, said Park District spokeswoman Marta Juaniza. Lifeguard times will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. instead of 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Swimmers face fines if they enter the …
President Obama has pledged his support for the 2016 bid. Sign our new online petition urging trhe President NOT to support Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics and to stay home when the IOC votes in Copenhagen in October.
You can always trust the government when they tell you that the Olympics will entirely funded by private investment and that the tax payers will not be soaked for the private five-ring party, right? Well the 2012 London summer games just made a big WHOOPS! -as reported on Regen Daily: The 2012 Olympic Village development …