Chicago’s Olympic blueprint targets historic buildings and impacts too many of the city’s parks, opponents claimed Friday, one week before the International Olympic Committee chooses the host city for the 2016 Summer Games. Activists and concerned citizens alike told Newsradio 780 — as part...

Two highly placed sources within the Olympic movement – who spoke on the condition of anonymity – have told Newsradio 780 that President Obama’s attendance at the IOC session in Denmark is absolutely needed to clinch 2016 host city for Chicago. According to one of the sources, Mr. Obama’s participation...

Chicago 206 organizers who are already on the ground in Copenhagen have  started rehearsing their final presentation to the IOC which is now just a week away.  Chicago 2016 also announced today that it will charter a 747 to Denmark next week with hundreds of  Chicago supporters aboard.  Most of...

The online Olympics related web site “Around the Rings” quotes an unidentied IOC source who says President Obama will be in Copenhagen next week for the 2016 host city announcement to pitch for his hometown Chicago. Contacted by Newsradio 780…the White House press office said this...

If Chicago’s Olympic movement and its organizers survive next week’s host city vote in Copenhagen, they may return to find ruffled feathers among hundreds of north side birdwatchers who oppose the location of a proposed tennis venue, which could negatively impact a popular and well-established sanctuary...

Tokyo 2016 Chair and CEO Dr. Ichiro Kono, before his departure for Copenhagen and the International Olympic Committee 2016 Host City selection… said Japan’s capital is the best possible choice to host the world’s greatest sports event as the world recovers from recession. “Tokyo is the right...

From Chicago 2016: Chicago 2016 announced today that Oprah Winfrey will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, for the bid committee’s final presentation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on October 2, as part of the official delegation. “We are very honored and excited to have Oprah Winfrey travel...

Chicago 2016 announced that 26 Olympic and Paralympic athletes will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, for the city’s final presentation to the International Olympic Committee. Olympians and Paralympians attending the events include: Willie Banks, Bob Berland, Brandi Chastain, Dragomir Cioroslan, Bryan...

Minority communities and labor organizations took a seat at the Olympic planning table early on in the Chicago 2016 bid process, representing south and west Side neighborhoods near the proposed sites of Olympics venues. Their message to Chicago 2016 is clear – share the Olympic gold. “We are excited...

In the next segment of  my series “Race for the Rings,” a report on how neighborhoods around proposed Chicago 2016 venues will be impacted and what steps residents and small business owners — especially minority business owners — are taking now in preparation for a possible...

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn will travel to Denmark to help lobby for Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics.  Quinn says hosting the Olympics would bring jobs and economic growth to Chicago and Illinois. He says it’s important “the world knows what a great place we have in Illinois...

President Obama sent letters to what the White House called a “targeted” group of  IOC members.  The letter, dated September 10 read in part, “The City of Chicago is designed to host global celebrations and it will deliver a spectacular Olympic experience for one and all. As President,...

Chicago Mayor Daley usually avoids comparing the city’s Olympic bid to rival cities Rio, Tokyo and Madrid but today he said geography and culture could help propel Chicago over the finish line. “Beijing just had the Olympics so Tokyo is very close to China.  Then Madrid is very close in...

In the second installment of my series Race for the Rings, Chicago Mayor Daley talked about Chicago’s bid for the Olympics and said what sets Chicago apart from its competitors is the cultural diversity of the city.  “Our city is more immigrants than they (the IOC) are dealing with…they...

Starting today, Newsradio 780 WBBM will begin airing a multi-part series examing Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics. The reports will air at 6:20-am and 8:20-am and then again at 3:20-pm and 6:40-pm weekdays. In the first report, a look at the preparations for the final presentation to the IOC...

Chicago 2016 spokesman Patrick Sandusky issued this statement in response to the report by Sun-Times gossip columnist Michael Sneed that President Obama had changed his mind about going to Copenhagen on October 2. “We are extremely excited about the First Lady’s commitment to come to Copenhagen...

Chicago Sun-Times Gossip Columnist Michael Sneed reports President Obama told a group of a close advisors Saturday that he will travel to Copenhagen after all on October 2.  That’s when the International Olympic Committee selects the 2016 host city.  He had planned to send his wife Michelle Obama...

Tom Tresser of No Games Chicago will be the guest on WBBM’s At Issue program this weekend (airing Sunday at 9:30-am and 9:30-pm.  Tresser told me and At Issue host Craig Dellimore that the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid is “the wrong project for the wrong city at the wrong time.”  No Games...

The Chicago Tribune’s David Greising writes in today’s edition that President Obama should not attend the IOC session in Copenhagen when the 2016 Olympics host city is chosen even if he can.  What do you think of his reasoning?  Read the article here.

Chicagoans who can’t make it to Copenhagen for the selection of the host city for the 2016 Olympics can gather in Daley Plaza to watch and listen together.  Chicago 2016 says the Daley Plaza event will begin at 9-am.  People will be able to watch the events in Copenhagen unfold leading up to...