[NU Sports] Chicago Olympics 2016

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Speaking as a Chicago suburbanite, it would be an incredible pain.
 
Traffic is already murderous - no one wants any more congestion.
 
Taxes are already too high - no one is going to want to pay for any of this.
 
Today it was announced that the Chicago Public Schools may have to axe 1000 teachers just to handle a sudden spike in teachers' pension costs.
 
The infrastructure is already crumbling - the El tracks are ancient, the expressways are in a constant state of rebuilding, bridges and viaducts are in a bad state of disrepair
 
Cost overruns at Millenium Park, as well as widespread corruption in Daley's City Hall (The city Treasurer now wears a monitoring device, thanks to the Hired Trucks scandal) have caused the public to distrust any large public works project - they recognize that all that money will disappear into a black hole of corruption and graft.
 
Every city that has hosted an Olympiad has suffered huge losses.
 
Inter-Governmental cooperation always sounds good on paper - but in Illinois, it almost never works.  Chicago is almost always at odds with the suburbs - and other local units of government have almost no reason to work together.  Airport planning, transit planning - all of these initiatives break down in 'city vs.suburbs' problems.
 
Please  - NO OLYMPICS EVER !
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Michael Hawkins <spiritu at northwestern.edu>
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:37:41 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [NU Sports] Chicago Olympics 2016


Here's a great article which mentions NU prominently in its reasoning for why Chicago has a giant leg up on NYC and other US cities for its 2016 bid: 
 
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/maggie_haskins/07/08/chicago.2016/ 
<http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/maggie_haskins/07/08/chicago.2016/> 
 
It would be incredible. 
 
Jonathan 
 
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