As you’ve no doubt heard, the United States Olympic Committee announces tomorrow whether Chicago or Los Angeles will join the international competition to bid for the 2016 Games. If we win, we’ll have to wait again – this time until 2009, when the International Olympic Committee makes its final choice.
Whether or not Chicago comes out on top tomorrow, the city’s Olympic bid portends big changes in the areas surrounding the proposed temporary stadium in Washington Park. And Daley is pledging to build the Olympic Village, which would occupy a truck-staging area near McCormick Place, whether we win the games or not.
Whether you’re in favor of the Olympics or you think it’s a budgetary catastrophe in the making, we’d like to hear your thoughts on what kind of lasting effect they’ll have on our fair city.