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| Kass shares readers' suggestions for Chicago Olympics |
| 2009-04-02 |
| Read the whole thing. Put down your coffee before reading, though Welcome, International Olympic Committee! While you're being wined and dined at fancy restaurants by Chicago political and business leaders hoping to cash in on the 2016 Games, the humble taxpaying readers of this column today offer you their hospitality and IOC love. I'm stunned, actually. Stunned is the word. On Sunday, I asked readers for authentic Chicago-style Olympic event ideas to honor the IOC evaluators. Hundreds of responses poured in, each sure to warm the heart of Mayor Richard Daley. Chicago 2016's new slogan is "Imagine," so reader Stanley G. imagined an Olympic oath read aloud by our business tycoons and politicians should Chicago win the games.... Many of you sent variations of "Sprints to the Federal Building," "Pothole Vaulting" and "Hired Truck Demolition Derby." Most popular was "Olympic (Wrought Iron) Fencing," the gold going to the mayor's brother Cook County Commissioner Johnny Daley, who sold insurance to the politically connected fence contractors.... What other events? "Synchronized Scheming" (Jeff S.); "Parking Dibs Derby" (Jerry P.), and an adaptation of a street game I played as a wee lad on South Peoria Street: "Fed Rover, Fed Rover, Let the Feds Come Over" (Ryan L.) in which politicians and their cronies hold hands and federal prosecutors run toward them, to break the weakest link.... |
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