Chicago - Our Olympic Hope April 16, 2007
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On Saturday, Chicago was selected by the U.S. Olympic Committee as its candidate to bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, ahead of two-time host Los Angeles. This is a huge step forward for Chicago and now puts us on the international stage. We all think this is the greatest place to live, work and do ministry, but now we hope to be able to host the Olympics and show that to the world!
Chicago will likely compete with Madrid, Prague, Rome, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo to hold the 2016 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee is to decide on a venue for the 2016 Summer Olympics in October 2009. Chicago will start from scratch in hosting the games, unlike Los Angeles that had almost every infrastructure in place to host the games. However, the local Olympic committee intends to build an Olympic stadium with a seating capacity of 80,000 at an estimated cost of $366 million. This would be supported by a lakefront village in the downtown area at a cost of $1.1 billion.
