No Games Chicago: How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the Citys 2016 Olympic [Paperback]

Contents

Preface

About the author

Acknowledgements

1. How to Use This Book

2. Introduction

3. Background - The Olympics Are BIG Business

4. Chicago Makes Its Play

5 .What Was at Stake - Chicago Loves Big Plans

6. The Players  The International Olympic Committee

7. The Players  For the City

8. The Players  The Opposition

9 .The Battle for the Bid Begins - No Games Goes Public

10.What Did the Bid Actually Propose?

11.Insights and an Insider Drives Strategy and Tactics

12.The Research - What Was Learned

13.Tactics and Tools

14.Going Public, Part 2  April Rally & March - No Games Meets the IOC

15.Going Public, Part 3  Operation Cheese - No Games Goes to the IOC

16.Star Power and the Bid

17.No Games Grows on the Media

18.Arrogance, Missteps, Scandal, Attempted Bribes

19.Mayor Daley Must Sign the Blank Check - Aldermen Briefed in Secret  No Games Tells All

20.50 Wards in 50 Days and No Games Was There

21.Major Push for a Community Benefits Agreement - To What End?

22.Who Backed and Paid for the Bid?

23.Chicago 2016 Economic Impact Study a Work of Fiction

24.How's This for Oversight - Carrie Austin & Ed Burke

25.The Battle for the Bids Last Days  A Flurry of City Activity - Whining & Whitewashing

26.Heading to Decision Day  Emailing the IOC 70 Days in a Row

27.The Tide Is Turned - Chicagoans Say No Games!