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Chicago loses in the first round of the four cities for the
2016 Summer Olympics.  I am pleased since I was not happy with the idea of turning our fair city into a work pit for years and making parking and the like that much more difficult than it is already.  My family would drive down to the city
on nice days and park for free at the Buckingham fountain, the Field Museum, the Shedd, the Adler Planetarium, now
you need to pay for everything and then again.

Many suburban folk get memberships to Chicago based
fun for just the parking.  To have this town filled with more
crazy visitors for a brief time and all  the baloney involved in making it ready is just too much.


© Suburban Journals of  Chicago Inc. photo by Dan Peters

We kept quiet until the voting, because we are team players to a certain degree.  Now that the team has been thrown to the dogs though I can comment on the miserable school system that Chicago has, the daily murders in the streets of our young people.  The Chicago School Union is asking that trouble kids get their own school so that kids that want to learn or at least behave themselves may get a chance.  There are schools in the city that have 42 kids in a class and the Union says that they should have an aid with 32 kids, and they have no aid.  We send millions to the damn Middle East when our schools are going down the toilet at home, and kids are dying in the streets-but we worry about the people in the Middle East first.  Perhaps we will find oil on the Westside of the City, now we just have reasonably priced heroin.


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The president's short visit to Copenhagen may have hurt our chances,  some think, too business like, leaving before the vote even took place.  I have no idea about that, but perhaps the other day when Mayor Daley spoke poorly about the other towns in contention, and that being strictly forbidden by the IOC rules might have had an impact.


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We would have had a better chance if they only allowed bribes to the officials like the good old days.  You would think one of our grand ex-Governors could have helped.

P.S.

The winner of the Olympic bid for 2016 is Rio de Janeiro
with  6,161,047 people and murder rate of 61 people killed per
100,000 residents, and Chicago is only 15.65 per 100,000.
(Total are listed below for some problem cities of the world)


The region of neighborhoods around Rio

Rio has mountains, beaches and downtown it is very attractive but outside this area it is a dangerous region, a place called the "Favelas" and in these areas violence is not a stranger and in some of these areas people do not leave their homes at night and the police have little or no power to help.

If the IOC has a mission to make places in the world better then I would vote for RIO too, but Spain would have been closer for
many in the world.  The other item that probably had a lot to do with the choice of Rio is that the entire country got behind the bid, not just an area with interest like Chicago, but the backing of  the entire country, a lot more money put on the table.  I had thought at one point that our crime could have been a negative influence until I looked at the numbers.


Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has 130 murders per 100,000 people.
  
Caracas, Venuzula has 96 murders per 100,000 people.

New Orleans, Louisiana has 95 murders per 100,000 people.

Tijuana, Mexico has 73 murders per 100,000 people.

Cape Town, South Africa, has 62 murders per 100,000 people.

Rio de Janeiro has 61 killed per 100,000 people.

Baltimore, Maryland has 45 murders per 100,000 people.

Baghdad, Iraq, 40 murders per 100,000 people.

Chicago murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 people.