Patrick Ryan

Pat Ryan, Head Of Failed Chicago Olympics Bid, Gets New Sports Gig

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago


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...

Northwestern Names Morton Owen Schapiro President

Chicago Tribune | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago


Northwestern University announced today that Morton Owen Schapiro, president of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., will become the university's ...

City Council Wants More Diversity In Chicago Olympic Bid

Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 01.15.2009 | Chicago


The Finance Committee of Chicago's City Council has postponed deciding whether the city should purchase the Michael Reese Hospital site for its Olympi...

No Brown Rings and No Education Dollars in Chicago's Olympic Bid

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago


Esther J. Cepeda

For a bid committee whose web site goes out of its way to tell the story of the 1.8 million Chicagoans of Mexican-American heritage, not a single Hispanic kid made it into the athlete video.