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Chicago Says “NO!” to 2016

The poll was taken down after two days…

“Investors” Love Olympic Housing Plan, Rest Of Us – Not So Much

Sun-Times “On The Home Front” real estate columnist Don DeBat wrote in Friday’s paper:

Chicago’s $4.8 billion Olympic Games bid features details about a new neighborhood that is planned to house some 16,000 athletes and officials on the current site of Michael Reese Hospital on the Near South Side. Preliminary Olympic Village plans, drafted by architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, call for 21 high-rises, each about 12 stories high built in rows on grid-style streets on the 37-acre site of the shuttered hospital near 31st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. Some 2,000 to 3,500 housing units are planned across the giant 128-acre Olympic Village neighborhood just south of McCormick Place. Plans also call the village to become a mixed-income residential community after the Games. As the economy improves, it is likely that a good percentage of the housing units in this brand new neighborhood could be sold to investors, rented during and after the games, and later converted to condominium ownership, experts say.

So – are you an “investor”? If so, lthen this plan is for you. If you’re a South Sider looking to keep your home or a Chicago tax payer looking not to get soaked by another city-fueled Ponzi scheme and developer bail out – then this deal is NOT for you.

79% Say “NO!” to the Olympics

79% of the 16,266 people who voted in the Chicago Tribune on line poll said “NO!’ to the 2016 Olympics.

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Chicago says “NO!” to paying for the Olympics

Citizens say "No!" to being taxed for the Olympics!

The Chicago Tribune released the result of a poll it commissioned saying that 75% of people surveyed do not want taxes to go support the Olympics coming to or operating in Chicago.

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Tribune poll: Support for Chicago Olympics tempered by opposition to using taxes for Games – Over 100 comments!

In a separate story in the business section, the Tribune raises questions about the financial viability of the Olympic Village construction project.

Chicago 2016 expects greater scrutiny of Olympic Village proposal

How Would You Use $730 Million to Improve Chicago?ou

A few hundred million here, a few hundred million there. It adds up. $730 million is how much the city is committed to spending on the Olympics THAT WE KNOW OF.

How would spend $730 million to improve Chicago? VOTE ON THIS POLL BY CLICKING THE IMAGE.

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