YORBA LINDA, Calif. — When Richard Nixon first met his future bride, he was so smitten he pined for her night and day, he schemed of romantic ge...
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
A little more than one year after the October 2 decision to award the 2016 Olympic games to Rio, organizers of No Games Chicago will discuss what h...
Chicago Tribune | Kathy Bergen and Philip Hersh | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011
Maybe we should look within and rather than attract international visitors, let's look into our own backyards and communities and teach our youth how to be Olympians and how to compete.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO (AP)--Patrick Ryan will continue his efforts to expand Olympic sports in Chicago, even after the city lost its bid for the 2016 Games. Ryan w...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — (AP) So much for Da Games. Chicago residents felt blindsided Friday as the International Olympic Committee quickly eliminated their h...
Chicago Sun-Times | LISA DONOVAN | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago 2016 CEO Patrick Ryan said a poll conducted last week shows 72 percent of Chicagoans back bringing the Games to the city while 84 percent of A...
AP | NANCY ARMOUR | Posted 05.25.2011
COPENHAGEN — Rio or Chicago? Risk vs. reliable. For the International Olympic Committee, the biggest decision in choosing the city to host the ...
AP | NANCY ARMOUR | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Pat Ryan isn't a gold medalist, like the leader of Madrid's bid committee. Nor does he have a long history with the International Olym...
Crain's Chicago Business | John Pletz | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Richard M. Daley and Patrick Ryan assure Chicago taxpayers that a safety net of insurance would insulate them from the financial risks of hostin...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Daley's chief of staff got a whopping 41 percent pay raise -- to $250,000 a year -- when she jumped off the City Hall merry-go-round to become p...
Chicago Tribune | Kathy Bergen | Posted 05.25.2011
The tab for building an Olympic Village typically is reported to be about $1 billion, but a tally of various associated costs puts the total at $1.18 ...
AP | STEPHEN WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON — President Barack Obama renewed his support for Chicago's Olympic bid Tuesday, telling African Olympic leaders in a video message the 20...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 05.25.2011
Several aldermen are demanding complete details about the city's proposed financial guarantee for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games so they can have them ...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 05.25.2011
On Monday, the Chicago 2016 Olympics committee leaders balked at the idea of publicly briefing the City Council about a wrinkle that could put taxpaye...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The head of Chicago's Olympic bid committee tried to calm anger Monday over Mayor Daley's disclosure last week that the city will sign a contract assu...
AP | STEPHEN WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The four cities bidding for the 2016 Olympics took their case directly to the voters on Wednesday, stressing the backing...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago is not the favorite to land the 2016 Olympics, regardless of what insiders, experts and pundits have to say....
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Leaders of Chicago's Olympic bid were quite pleased with the results of the IOC's recent evaluation visit, the AP reports. But just as Chicago 2016 ch...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE 6:30 PM The chairwoman of the International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission says members were "most impressed" by what Chicago could...
AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 05.25.2011
DENVER — The committee trying to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago has invited President Barack Obama to be in Copenhagen for its final present...
AP | Betsy Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
ST. LOUIS - The chief executive of a campaign to bring the Olympics to Chicago in 2016 doesn't think the controversy surrounding the Illinois governor...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Daley's plan to borrow $86 million to acquire Michael Reese Hospital property for a $1.1 billion Olympic Village sailed through a City Council W...
Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 05.25.2011
The Finance Committee of Chicago's City Council has postponed deciding whether the city should purchase the Michael Reese Hospital site for its Olympi...
AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 05.12.2012