Obama Bringing NATO, G-8 Summits To Chicago

WASHINGTON -- A senior administration official says President Barack Obama will host the NATO and G-8 summits in his hometown of Chicago next year.

The official says world leaders will gather in Chicago in May to discuss the future of coalition operations in Afghanistan. The U.S. will be in the midst of drawing down more than 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by the time the summits take place.

Obama will announce steps toward drawing down those forces by the end of next summer during a prime-time address to the nation Wednesday night. He will announce the summits in his speech The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans ahead of the president's announcement.

Comments

[rwextthoughts]

03:55 PM on 06/23/2011

NEWS UPDATE,,,

they are going to Vegas or Orlando as the Unionistas made it too costly

[robodawa]

09:46 AM on 06/23/2011

These folks are going to eat so well. None of that phoney nouveau cuisine portion control
malarky: it will be platter service. My advice is to get them to sign their fortune's away
right before the food coma hits. As far as Mobsters . . . oh, that's all barroom tall tales.
Republicans got that story going after the GAR finally petered out in the early 1930's.

[Kevin Zielke]

08:04 AM on 06/23/2011

I for one can not wait to go downtown with a giant bucket of popcorn to watch the surging protesters and overly aggressive police forces

[RageVsMachine]

02:32 PM on 06/23/2011

i was just thinking that...

[nappyman]

07:21 AM on 06/23/2011

Can't wait for fox news to get a hold a this: cue talk of gangland Chicago style politics and nepotism.

[Trickery]

09:53 PM on 06/22/2011

What's with all the negative Nancy's below? :/

[knightoftheroundtable]

07:43 PM on 06/22/2011

Payback to his buddy Rahm. Good for us too, look at all the money it will bring in, especially on parking fees.

[MWA1111]

08:38 PM on 06/22/2011

No parking fees. The limos never park.

[goblue137]

11:28 AM on 06/23/2011

Except that Chicago won't see a single penny of that from the meters. All that parking money will go straight to the Middle East. Yay for selling out our city.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2010/10/why-does-abu-dhabi-own-all-of-chicago-s-parking-meters/18627/

[Bankerrkt]

07:13 PM on 06/22/2011

Oh good, this should be a repeat of the 1968 Dem Convention. Can't wait to see the coverage from afar.

[anniewheelr]

07:05 PM on 06/22/2011

Isn't it amazing that when the President goes to bring something to American it seems to always be going to Chicago? We don't want the G-8 here...or the NATO summits. The cost in added security and the trouble in the streets that these meetings can and have brought to other cities is not something a city with budge woes or a country with budget woes needs.

[Jacques Steen]

07:27 PM on 06/22/2011

Exactly WHAT are you harping about ?


WHAT international conference has the President brought to his home town ?


You silly TeaKluxers really want our President to fail at all costs, don't you - - and then you have the unmitigated NERVE to sully the word by calling yourselves "patriots."


You are nay-sayers that give comfort to our enemies.


You are a traitor.

[MWA1111]

08:40 PM on 06/22/2011

LOL. And I'm sure you had nothing but kind words to say about GWB.

[sergal stew]

06:41 PM on 06/22/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8kqzSX1L70