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Posts in category "Olympics"

Chicago casino idea folds

The old Michael Reese Hospital won’t be the site of a casino because Daley objects. Does he have his own plan for the site? It didn’t take long for the backers of a casino on what would have been the site of the Olympic Village to fold their cards. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 10, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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Chicago's 1992 World's Fair

Chicago won the 1992 World’s Fair, but because of local political bickering, it went to Seville, Spain instead. Pictured is Seville’s Puente del Alamillo at night, designed by Santiago Calatrava in 1992. Chicago three times won global competitions to host a world’s fair. Once for the 1892 World’s Columbian Exposition (the White City), once for... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 4, 2009 at 12:39 pm
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What Americans think about the 2016 Olympics in Chicago

Americans are evenly divided on the importance of Chicago winning the 2016 Olympics while 43 percent think it’s a bad idea for President Obama to go to Copenhagen to make pitch for the city. Whether Obama should travel there to support Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid has been batted back and forth even in the White... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 1, 2009 at 12:39 pm
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The Olympics skinny

Here’s some good background on the upcoming Olympic selection events in Copenhagen. How do you think that  Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard (right) will get along with our Lord Mayor Richie Daley? In this Associated Press photo, she is seen attending the eco-premiere of the environmental documentary “The Age Of Stupid” during climate week on... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 24, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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Brazil: We need Olympics more than Chicago

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvasays plays the “poor us” card in a last-ditch pitch forthe 2016 Olympics. No country needs it more, he said, referring presumably to the country’s third-world status. Don’t worry about crime or the lack of hotel rooms, he said, two of the biggest objections... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 22, 2009 at 11:39 am
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Obama stiffs Chicago

Obama to Daley: You’re on your own, Richie Alas, President Barack Obama has decided that he wouldn’t do Chicago’s bidding by personally going to  Copenhagen to lobby for the city on the eve of the final decision about who gets the 2016 Olympics. A high Olympic official earlier said Obama’s absence would be noted (not... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 16, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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King Daley, Queen Oprah and Olympic jousting

What a perfect metaphor for Chicago: thousands of Oprah fans sheepishly Chicagoans flock to pay obeisance to Daley and Oprah corralled into their Michigan Avenue pens, fighting their full bladders for hours in the sun and, finally, gyrating and bowing in unison as if they were worshiping at the altar of a pagan god. It... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 15, 2009 at 11:57 am
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IOC Report: Chicago's Olympic bid 'risky'

Tribune photo by José M. Osorio / April 5, 2009 Workers walk near the Chicago 2016 logo at Soldier Field, which is one of the venues that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is visiting for the 2016 Olympics & Paralympic Games in Chicago Sunday. Like any good public relations operation, when you expect bad news... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 2, 2009 at 8:56 am
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