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Michael Moreci | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Economic Crisis, Chicago, Cta, Chicago Public Transportation, Chicago Election, Chicago Mayoral Race, Chicago Deficit, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

A month after the city was rebuffed in its Olympics bid, the financial hand wringing has returned. The smokescreen Daley spread over the city's economic disasters for the IOC has dissipated.

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Old Enough to Know Better, Young Enough to Pretend: Can the Chicago News Cooperative Succeed?

Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Journalism, Chicago Reader, Old Media vs. New Media, Creative Commons, Chicago Politics, Chicago Olympics, Death of Newspapers, Wbez, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, New York Times, Cnc, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago News

If there was a better day to announce the News Cooperative, I can't think of it. After Mayor Daley's budget address, the two major papers ran the same cover: a 24-year-old kidnapping.

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Obama Chicago Olympics Defense: President Mocks Critics Of His Push For 2016 Olympics

AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Chicago, Rio 2016, Oprah, Copenhagen, Obama, Denmark, Brazil, Rio, Chicago 2016, Rio De Janeiro, Olympics, Bid, Chicago Olympics, Chicago News

NEW YORK — President Barack Obama is having some fun at the expense of those who criticized him for trying to help his Chicago hometown land the...

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Tom Tresser, No Games Chicago Founder, Plans Cook County Board President Run

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Todd Stroger, Cook County Board President Race, No Games Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Tom Tresser, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

The man who helped thwart President Obama, Mayor Daley and the rest of Chicago's powerful Olympics proponents is setting his sights on a potentially t...

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'Rio Won The Bid ...Chicago Did Not Lose': Former USOC Chief

AP | BRETT MARTEL | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Olympics, Usoc, Ioc, Jim Scherr, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, Chicago 2016, Rio 2016, Rio Olympics, Stephanie Streeter, Chicago News

NEW ORLEANS — The ousted CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee said changing leadership and strained relations with international Olympic officials ...

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Olympic Fencer Tim Morehouse on President Obama and Michelle Mock-Fencing: "Michelle would have won in a duel."

Sabine Heller | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Obama, Michelle Obama, President Obama, Olympics, Fencing, Tim Morehouse, Living News

The President and First Lady began spontaneously dueling, away from the camera's eye, during Obama's rally supporting Chicago's Olympic bid.

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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is Well Deserved

2morrowknight | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Committee, Conservatives-Cheer-Olympic-Loss, Tea Party, Chicago Olympics, Martin Luther King, Peace Prize Reaction, Susan B. Anthony, Politics News

In ten months under Obama, America's image in the world is decidedly better than it was under the previous president.

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What Happened in Copenhagen (When We Went to Influence the IOC -- Again)

Tom Tresser | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, No Games Chicago, Chicago 2016, No Games Tokyo, Jacque Rogge, International Olympic Committee, Chicago Corruption, Mayor Daley, Obama Copenhagen, Ioc, Pat Ryan, Olympics, Chicago News

We had penetrated the multiple rings of security, outfaced the bureaucracy of the International Olympic Committee and stood our ground to deliver information that the mayor, the 2016 Committee and the entire business elite of Chicago didn't want to see and didn't want to acknowledge.

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Daley 'Shows No Sign Of Relinquishing His Throne': AP

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 10.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Mayor Daley, Mayor Daley Approval Rating, Daley 2011, Daley Popularity, Daley Opponents, Daley Scandals, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A Daley has run Chicago and its all-powerful Democratic political machine for 41 of the last 54 years, and despite a recent spate of b...

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Peace and Politics

Paula Gordon | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Nobel, Nobel, Chicago Olympics, Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Olympics, Politics News

My first thought on hearing the news was to rejoice. My second thought was anticipation of the squeals, whines and bellyaches that America's extreme wrong-wing noisemakers invariably shriek.

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Derrion Albert, Renaissance 2010, Olympics 2016 and the Breakfast Club

Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Youth Violence, Arne Duncan, Derrion Albert, Renaissance 2010, Michael Pfleger, Mayor Daley, Jody Weis, Chicago Olympics, Ron Huberman, Eric Holder, Chicago Public Schools, School Reform, Education Reform, Chicago News

When I was a pastor on the West Side I found myself in the middle of rioting students on more than one occasion. What happened? Since the riots weren't caught on video, we didn't get any help from the White House.

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Actor Jeffrey Wright on Chicago's Loss of the Olympic Bid And Health Care

Liz Glover | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Health Care Reform, Jeffrey Wright, Chicago Olympics, Health Care, Chicago, Politics News

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Quigley Delivers Top Ten Reasons Chicago Is World's Best City To Congress

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Quigley Top Ten, Mike Quigley, Video, Second City, Chicago, Daniel Burnham, Cubs Fans, Chicago Neighborhoods, Chicago News

U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley took a page from David Letterman Tuesday night, delivering a Top Ten list from the floor of Congress of his "Reasons Chicago is...

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Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 25: Don't Cry Chicago, The Kinky Llama Delivers!

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sex Toy Delivery, Chicago Olympics, Erin Andrews, Michael David Barrett, Keeping Score in Chicago, The Kinky Lama, Chicago Podcasts, Chicago News

After the Olympic failure, Chicagoans need something to make them smile. Get prepared to meet the Kinky Llama, Chi-Town's bicycle-riding sex toy delivery man. What's his top seller? Listen to find out.

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The Demonization of Barack Obama

Sheldon Filger | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Obama, Conservatives, Republican Party, Barack Obama, President Obama, Tea Party Protesters, Conservatives Cheer Olympic Loss, Birther Movement, Birthers, Obama Olympic Bid, Chicago Olympics, JFK Assassination, Protestors, Politics News

While wrapping their vituperation in the American flag, these extremists masquerading as patriots are actually damaging the heart and soul of the conservative movement in the United States.

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Stephanie Streeter, USOC Chief, Leaving After Chicago Olympics Bust

AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Olympics, Usoc, Usoc Ceo, Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, Chicago 2016, 2016 Olympics, Ioc, Stephanie Streeter, Larry Probst, Chicago News

Six months of shaky decisions and turmoil came to a head for the U.S. Olympic Committee on Wednesday when its acting CEO said she would step down, bri...

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A Post-Olympic Plan for a City Under Siege

Kevin Coval | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Derrion Albert, Arne Duncan, Chicago Olympic Bid, Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Daley, Chicago Violence, Chicago Olympics, Cps, Louder Than a Bomb, Ron Huberman, Chicago Gang Violence, Chicago News

The city will be abuzz with language and records of now from people who are normally never heard from, the youth. Seen and now heard. And safe.

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Daley: No Political Cost For Olympics Failure

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympic Bid, Mayor Daley Approval Rating, Mayor Daley, Chicago Olympics, Daley Seventh Term, Daley 2011, Chicago 2016, Daley Olympics, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley today said he doesn't think the city's Olympic bid defeat will have any impact on his popularity and that he hasn't decided yet wh...

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Chicago Olympics Bid Chief: No Way To Beat Rio

Chicago Tribune | Kathy Bergen and Philip Hersh | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ioc, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, Olympics, Rio 2016, Chicago Olympics, Rio Olympics, Pat Ryan, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Though Chicago's campaign for the 2016 Summer Games went down in flames in the first round of voting, there was nothing more the city could have done ...

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Burned by the IOC, But Not by Burnham: Lessons From the Collapse in Copenhagen

Andy Shaw | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Olympics, Burnham Plan of Chicago, Chicago Olympic Bid, Rod Blagojevich, Chicago Corruption, Mayor Daley, Daniel Burnham, Chicago Olympics, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

With or without Daley at the helm, it's time to make some other big plans that have the power to stir all of our souls.

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Obama Without Glamour

Giles Slade | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Do-Nothing-Congress, Stanley McChrystal, Chicago Olympics, Saturday Night Live, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Politics News

Obama needs a clear win on something very soon in order to re-energize Americans and refocus them for the difficult and varied tasks that lie ahead during the next three years.

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Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: A.J. Liebling, Chicago Olympics, David Mamet, Saul Alinsky, Sara Paretsky, Gloria Steinem, Herman Hesse, Chicago, Books News

Chicago is an Olympian city when it comes to literature and the arts. And what better time than now to remind us? Here's a sampling of some of those triumphs of the sedentary.

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Conservatives Go for the Bronze

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Bennett, Ioc, International Olympic Committee, Obama Copenhagen, Chicago Olympics, Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, Chicago 2016, Politics News

That conservatives have such a blind, ignorant, hot hatred for Barack Obama and for anything that isn't them, that they'll sell America down Grover Norquist's bathtub drain just to have their way.

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8 Waving Red Flags Hoisted

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Ioc, Wall Street, Olympics, Stock Market, Economy, Rio De Janeiro, Chicago Olympics, Obama Olympics, Business News

On the surface, the U.S.'s failure to win the 2016 Olympic games is no big deal. But others see it as indicative of problems down the road. Is the IOC's decision a red flag the market should be wary of?

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Wal-Mart Push Back On After Olympics Bust

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Week in Review, Wal-Mart Unions, Mayor Daley, Wal-Mart Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Wal Mart Chicago Stores, Howard Brookins, Wal-Mart, South Side Wal-Mart, Chicago News

Now that Mayor Daley's Olympic dream has gone up in flames, a South Side alderman is turning up the heat for City Council approval of Chicago's second...

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