Applicant Cities
Chicagoist: Ready to Host the Olympics?
Flagged up on nogameschicago.com, stablemate of the popular Londonist blog the Chicagoist asks:
Is Chicago Ready to Host the Olympics?
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Sat, 01/08/2009 - 10:23.
Chicago 2016 Admits Lying to Public
As reported by Crain’s Chicago Business reporter, Greg Hinz:
Olympic chief admits errors, but promises full disclosure
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Fri, 26/06/2009 - 09:56.
Article | Applicant Cities | Chicago 2016 | Corruption & Ethics | Displacement | Environment | Finance | Funding | Politics | Regeneration
2016 Bid cities told ' No financial guarantee, no olympics'.
Chicago's 2016 bid committee hopes the 80 pages of information it sent last week to the International Olympic Committee will help distinguish the quality of the city's Summer Olympic bid from those of its six rivals. After all, the IOC will pick finalist cities in June largely on the basis of that information.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Tue, 15/01/2008 - 23:06.
Article | Applicant Cities | Chicago 2016 | Finance | Politics | Sustainability
2016 Olympics is Chicago's to lose
The American city of Chicago is such a hot favourite to win the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics that only they can mess it up, a senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) member told AFP.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Tue, 08/01/2008 - 09:13.
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