Best City for Everything!!!
Chicago, I believe, is the likely front-runner for the 2016 Summer Games. Despite the early returns, lots of the issues brought up by the International Committee will be resolved simply by International committee visiting the city and reviewing the situation in person.
Mayor Daley's biggest mistake in this process was the somewhat irrational decision to overhaul Soldier Field for the Bears without thinking about an Olympic possibility at the same time. He probably could have built a retractable dome for the Bears, attached to McCormick place, for what it cost him to rehab the spaceship into Soldier Field's columns. Then he could have renovated Soldier Field back into a 100,000 seat stadium by returning it to the original configuration - i.e. cutting out the north endzone seats and going back to a horseshoe stadium, or just pushing the north endzone seats far enough back for the track to fit.
Many people question the location of the proposed stadium. But, if you look back, when the University of Chicago was a Big Ten member, Stagg Field sat 50,000 people, and the current Stagg Field is in the same location, adjacent to Washington Park. That area, then, has a history of being able to host a large stadium.
Almost every city hosting an Olympics, unless they previously hosted, will need to build some sites. Velodromes, for cycling, just don't exist in most locations, and neither do swimming venues with seating for thousands. Chicago will definitely benefit from building such venues, and will have the opportunity to use them after the Olympics.
The transportation system is definitely thought to be an issue, but really isn't. Sure, it needs some updating, but the METRA Electric line runs from Chicago State (which has a new 7500 seat arena that opened this year), past the University of Chicago and the Olympic Stadium, past the proposed Olympic Village and then on to McCormick Place, Soldier Field, and Grant Park/Millennium Park, where many of the venues will be located. But if you have never ridden the METRA Electric, you don't know how close it comes to many of those locations. Sure, people might have to walk a few blocks to the Olympic Stadium through the University of Chicago - but if part of the Olympics is to learn about the local culture, what better than to have people walk though one of the greatest universities in the country, if not the world?
Many cities use the Olympics as the redevelopment springboard - tear everything down in the neighborhood and start over. They don't need to do that in Chicago. Everything will fit nicely into the proposed areas without complete reconstruction. It will be a boom to the city.
And, it appears, the reality may be that the US could have a President from Chicago - Obama - and the next governor of Illinois could be Bill Daley, Mayor Rich Daley's brother. I can't picture a situation better suited for an Olympics in Chicago, the infrastructure being improved, and Chicago to be booming at the time the 2016 Olympics occurs. (But I'm from downstate Illinois - and it could be a frightening time for the area south of I-80).
Chicago Named Best City For Making Movies
The best city in which to be making movies is Chicago, according to MovieMaker magazine. Top reason: Illinois's 30-percent tax credit for film production. Although the magazine noted that major studios have been taking advantage of the tax credit to produce such films as The Dark Knight and the upcoming Public Enemies in Chicago, it noted that independent filmmakers have also discovered the advantages of shooting there. But Rich Moskal, director of the Chicago Film Office, remarked that there were other reasons that Chicago topped the list. "It's not just one thing," he said. "It's the city's multiple strengths and assets that truly make Chicago a workable and desirable place for independent filmmakers." Ranking second on the list is Atlanta; New York came in third, Shreveport, La, fourth, and Albuquerque, fifth.
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