Posted on 10/08/2009 9:06:18 PM PDT by STARWISE
Two aldermen are floating the idea of putting a casino and entertainment complex where Chicago had hoped to build an Olympic Village for the 2016 Games.
Alds. Richard Mell, 33rd, and George Cardenas, 12th, have not yet broached the idea with Mayor Richard Daley, who for years has wavered on the notion of bringing land-based gambling to Chicago.
In the week since the city lost its Olympic bid to Rio de Janeiro, Daley has said he is confident the 37-acre parcel site of the abandoned Michael Reese Hospital would be attractive to developers. The city recently bought the Near South Side site for $91 million but it hopes to resell it to private developers before the first mortgage payment is due in five years.
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Cardenas and Mell said Thursday a monorail could link the nearby McCormick Place convention center to the casino complex. Mell said the site also could feature a large theater offering "big-name entertainment" and a massive complex with dozens of TV screens for watching games or pro league drafts, emulating a project at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.
"The idea of an entertainment complex would be one way to raise revenues without further taxing the citizens and it would help McCormick Place compete with Las Vegas and other convention cities," Mell said.
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~~Laughs keep on coming ....
If they build a casino, I suggest they put in all penny machines. We’re ObamaNation now. No money!
Pimps an Ho’s,
Heroin an Coke,
Dawg fightin, DriveBys,
Union thugs and Corrupt Politicians,
Baal and Infant Sacrifice.
Whats not to like.
I figured they would come up with some scheme to get taxpayers to pay the bill.
gee...
I’m so surprisd... NOT!!
You just KNEW something like was going to happen. Too many connected Democrats expected to make millions on the hospital deal.
BTTT
The word “skim” keeps popping into my mind.
Yeah buddy. First on my list of places to go.
AN ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX?
You mean entertainment complexes like the failed DisneyQuest that the city poured money in to?
Isn’t that what Daly planned when he illegally bulldozed the runways at Meigs Airport?
A lot of important Democrats bought crappy land in Chicago. They have to get somebody to buy it with gubmint money.
Naw, they'll just install welfare card readers on the slot machines.
That too!
A casino and welfare office combo might be just perfect.
This is Mayor Daly’s chance while he Uncle Suga Daddy in office.
Blago's father in law will see that this is all on the up and up.
Is any of this Casino going to be built on lands taken by imminent domain for the Olympic purpose
add a strip club, porn store, T-shirt and head shop, payday loan bank, SMBD fetish store, a resort that charges by the hour, an ACORN office and a Starbucks, and you got a Chicago Mall of America
You got that right.
Now we know why post-Denmark Ohaha announced he established the first-ever White House Olympic Office........its' a slush fund for the Chicago Stooges and all their greedy cronies and hangers-on who went to Denmark expecting to make a buck on the games (see REFERENCE).
REFERENCE OBAMA CRONIES LINED-UP TO PROFIT This needs to be investigated pronto (but don't hold your breath).
David Axelrod's former PR firm did all the upfront work and was paid millions for the project for years to prepare Chicago’s losing Olympic bid presentation to the IOC (Axelrod is a top WH aide).
Four of the five co-chairs of Obama’sinaugural committee continue to have unpaid leadership roles in Chicago Olympics 2016, including Pat Ryan, the chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016; John Rodgers, the treasurer and director of Chicago 2016; Bill Daley, the former Clinton administration commerce secretary and brother of the Chicago mayor; and Penny Pritzker, the Chicago businesswoman and Hyatt hotel heiress who led Obama’s meteoric presidential campaign fundraising.
Pritzker’s family also owns or manages other hotels named by Chicago 2016 as the accommodations for Olympic workers, press and family members. Ryan and Priztker each contributed $100,000 or more to Chicago 2016.
As did WH Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, an Obama family friend, who also served on the Chicago committee. It still counts Obama confidant and vacation companion Eric Whitaker among its members.
Obama family insider in the WH, Valerie Jarrett, a slumlord, owns Chicago property she apparently planned to turn into Olympic Villages (she flew to Copenhagen). Jarrett was replaced as Chicago 2016 vice-chair by Martin Nesbitt, the treasurer of Obama’s campaign, and another Obama family insider.
ASK Public Strategies, the Chicago-based corporate public relations company founded by Obama political guru David Axelrod and owned and run by some of Obama’s top presidential campaign consultants, was paid “in the tens of thousands” of dollars by Chicago 2016 to do “communication management [and] planning,” said former Axelrod partner Eric Sedler, who did not work for Obama's campaign, but was in Copenhagen, along with Pritzker and Jarrett.
“ASK Public Strategies worked on the bid for three years and for 2/3 of that time our work was pro bono,” said Sedler, who would not speculate on whether the company would be in line for more Olympic work if the IOC picked Chicago (duh).
Obama's cronies have too much influence over the office of the President of the United States. That they can literally compel him to expend millions of tax-payer dollars to use two US govt planes, govt personnel, and other govt resources, to make a personal appeal to the IOC, speaks of a terrible, systemic corruption. Also makes one wonder if Obama was getting a cut of the deals.
BTW, did you know that Sen Dick Durbin was in Denmark?....... They were so sneaky as to who went. They took two govt planes---so it musta been quite a crowd. Videos aired from Denmark showed a few unfamiliar faces. Oprah was kept under wraps. Mrs Ohaha was shown getting off the plane alone. Only the Ohaha's were supposed to "shine"......er, ah, make that, bomb. LOL.
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