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Steinberg: Dear IOC, sorry yet on Rio choice?
July 23, 2013 10:54AM
Military police detain a man during an anti-government protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2013. | AP Photo
Updated: July 24, 2013 2:23AM
Dear International Olympic Committee:
Howdy! Long time no talk to. Four years. Where does the time go?
I know you’ve probably forgotten about Chicago, ever since you gave us the backhand in fall 2009, and in the first round no less.
But we remember. Yes, we do. What Chicagoan who stood in those crowds — dressed in our civic best, as it were, holding a hand-picked bouquet, gussied up to the tune of $50 million in city-buffing money, waiting, eager for the good news — can remember the deflating letdown, the shocking dismissal, the confetti trickling out of our slack fingers into the street, watching benumbed as Madrid, Rio and Tokyo skipped onward without us.
Ouch.
And in case you are tempted to ascribe this to bitterness, we’ll happily note that the Olympic games are three years away, so everything could still work well. Hard to imagine, but it’s possible. The protests rocking Brazil — hundreds of thousands of people, in 100 cities last month, the streets of Rio in flames this week — could ebb, and everything could somehow be fine in 2016. We add our sincere hopes and prayers that it will be so to those of the world.
Although one little question keeps waving its hand over its head, going “oh oh oh!” and begging to be asked. So I’m just going to call upon that question and be done with it. Ready? Here’s our question:
Sorry yet?
Because you could have had Chicago. Which isn’t a city without problems. Lots of problems. Streets in certain neighborhoods raked with deadly gunfire every weekend. Pension giveaways one straw away from cracking the government’s back. School teachers laid off by the thousands. And I’m sure, had we gotten the 2016 Olympics, as we should have, there would have been grumbling aplenty about hosting a big quadrennial party for the world’s athletic elites in the midst of all our concerns.
But I bet we could have done it without firebombs. Without the military breaking out the tear gas and the rubber bullets. I bet our population wouldn’t rise up against the Olympics, the way they’re doing in Brazil, which is also upset about hosting the World Cup in 2014.
Chicago hosted the World Cup, along with eight other cities, in 1994, which was such a non-crisis to us that I bet a lot of people who were around then don’t even remember it. I do — it was hot. That’s it. A city like ours knows how to do this kind of thing. We planned a victory party for several million Blackhawks fans in, what, three days? Tear gas proved unnecessary.
No hard feelings, IOC. Maybe next time, assuming we feel like going through all the bother to try to win your silly Olympics. But I don’t expect that. Most Chicagoans, rather than yearn toward our lost Olympics, are glad. We got off light, and now can get to sit back and watch Brazil try to manage the task, which might be more fun than hosting would have been. You can’t say you didn’t have your chance. And you blew it. You could have had gold, but settled for bronze.
Best,
Neil Steinberg
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State Rep. Monique Davis, a Democrat from Chicago, asked Gov. Patrick Quinn to work closely with Mayor Rahm Emanuel to bring in forces to help "provide safety for the children, especially, " reports KMOX radio in St. Louis.
Over the July 4 holiday weekend, 74 people were shot and 12 killed in Chicago. But that violence is nothing new.
Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, last year recorded a homicide rate more than three times higher than New York's and doubled the rate in Los Angeles.
The shootings cost Chicago about $2.5 billion a year, including intangible costs that occur when people don't go outside their homes or frequent businesses, said Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
Davis said the city has too little police presence to handle the violence.
"It's almost as if there’s a war going on," Davis told the Chicago Sun-Times. "It seems like it is genocide, and those officials who can do something about it have chosen not to do anything about it. I'm calling for the National Guard to come to Chicago and ride up and down these streets."
However, Davis said, if the extra forces are deployed, she would want a special commission to give law enforcement clear orders so that residents won't end up fearing the authorities as well.
Other Democrats appearing at a Tuesday's news conference in Springfield disagreed with calling in troops, reports The Springfield News-Gazette.
"I happen to disagree with calling in the state police and the National Guard," said Rep. Mary Flowers, a Chicago Democrat, "but what I do agree with is that the governor needs to do something. We must be respected in our community. We must have jobs in our community."
Davis said Quinn has not responded to her request for a meeting.
"There just is not enough concern," she said. "We are very concerned about pensions. We are very concerned about marriage equality. We are very concerned about everything but these deaths that are occurring on a daily basis."
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