Comments on: Chicago Is One Step Closer to the Olympics

By: Olympics Round-up

Olympics Round-up — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:36:50 +0000

[...] Matt at “The Chicago Traveler” talks about Chicago getting closer to hosting the 2016 games. [...]

By: Matt B

Matt B — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:04:53 +0000

Everyone here in Chicago is pretty darn excited too. I feel the Windy City is due. Chicago has never hosted the Olympics before, but we have had the Gay Games, the AIBA World Boxing Championships, and the FIFA World Cup, so the city has already proven it is capable of hosting such an international event. I have always been fascinated with the Olympic Games, and I could not begin to describe how excited I would be if they were hosted here.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:25:05 +0000

Either Tokyo or Chicago would work for me! They are crazy nuts over this in Tokyo right now…

I remember when Expo was held in Vancouver, my hometown, and speaking from experience it’s a bit crazy for residents when something that big comes to your town. But it’s a lot of fun too!

By: Kath

Kath — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:11:19 +0000

Well, I live in Chicago and more people here don’t want it than do. Our mass transit is falling apart, kids are getting shot left and right, and they just raised the sales tax in Cook County so that our sales tax total now comes to 10.25% – higher than New York. Our mayor is saying that no public money will be used for financing this, but everybody knows that’s a lie – we’ll be saddled with even more taxes to pay for all this. And for what? Three weeks of traffic snarls, heightened security on the trains & buses that are already hard to travel on, and the detrius of it all left strewn up and down our once-pretty lakefront once the world has moved on. NO THANK YOU.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:36:14 +0000

I second that. I’d fly to Chicago for this.

By: J-Michael

J-Michael — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:39:55 +0000

This is great! It’s about time it returned to Chicago…it’s a perfect city for it.