No Games Chicago : How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid (Hardcover)

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 Bid’s 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!"

28.Going Public, Part 4 - A Protest at City Hall

29.Going Public, Part 5 ? Operation Mermaid - What Happened in Copenhagen ? The End of the Battle

30.Immediately After the Decision - The Media Get It Wrong Again

31.Did No Games Make a Difference?

32.Delusional Post-Mortems & No Mention of No Games

33.The Police Spied on No Games

34.The Pricey Legacy of the Bid

35.Post Battle Research ? The Olympics Are Always Way Over Budget

36.The No Games Ripple Effect - No Games Organizer Deported

37.Lessons for the Future

38.Closing Thoughts

39.Strategic Playbook

40.Online Extras

41.Select Literature in the Field

Index

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