It's Chicago!!!!!

Chicago took a major step this morning towards being the host city for the 2016 games! The U.S. Olympic Committee selected Chicago as the U.S. applicant city for the 2016 games.



For those of you who are interested, you can listen to the announcement by Peter Ueberroth here:



http://www.usoc.org/16AppChicago.mp3



(ignore the first minute or so of background noise before announcement starts)



Congratulations to Mayor Daley and Patrick Ryan for this initial victory!





Now we have two and a half more years until the selection of the actual host - it looks like Chicago will be up against at least Tokyo and Rio for the honor of hosting the 2016 Summer Games. Early speculation indicates the main competition will be between Chicago and Rio...