The Chicago Sun-Times reports on the Chicago rally for the 2016 Olympics in which Barack Obama praised The Machine run Chicago:
Obama said his stop at the rally was a last-minute decision. Back home to rest after a tough nomination fight, he has no appearances on his schedule this weekend.
Joining Daley and other dignitaries, including Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Obama said an Olympics here would be "a capstone of the success we've had over the last couple of decades in transforming Chicago into not just becoming a great American city but a great world city.''
Daley called the other finalists Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro "tough competition,'' but added, "What we have here is a spirit.''
'Wanted a good crowd' at rally
The crowd included a number of government workers; one city employee said her department was "invited" to the rally by supervisors who "wanted a good crowd.''
Dianne McCollough, a lawyer with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, said she came on her own accord. An Olympics here would "show the world something positive about Chicago,'' she said.
You'll notice the government workers seem to be needed to fill the crowd(we thought Obama mania was real).It's expensive to pay government workers to not work full time.That's why Chicago has the highest sales tax in the nation for any big city.As far as Obama calling Chicago a "world class city",it doesn't seem "world class" enough to send his children to the
public schools.Few large cities can say they've lost population this decade.But,then few places are like
Chicago.Just ask the
FBI about what's thriving:
From an exhaustive Hired Truck investigation to a probe into patronage hiring at City Hall, there's so much corruption to investigate in the Chicago area, the FBI is adding manpower.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Grant told the Sun-Times he has reorganized the bureau to add a third public corruption squad by Sept. 6, giving Chicago the largest public corruption unit in the country.
Even New York and Los Angeles only have two squads, said Washington-based FBI spokesman Steve Kodak. It is the second time in two years the FBI in Chicago has expanded its public corruption force.
Obama's "world class city".
