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CHapter 17

No Games Used The Media Smartly

 

$1.4 billion in tifs funds at the end of 2008!

The Mayor and all his allies claimed Chicago was broke and needed the 2016 Olympics to ensure prosperity in the future. The No Games crew secured all 164 Annual Reports for Chicago's Tax Increment Financing Districts (TIFs) and opened them up and added up the total balances from each district - a simple act any reporter, policy "expert" or elected official could have done. They discovered $1.4 BILLION in propertry taxes sitting in those accounts at the end of 2008. So - with all those property tax dollars sitting in bank accounts - Chicago could NOT be broke and did not need to risk billions of public dollars to produce an Olympics seven years in the futrue. This was the origin of the TIF Illumination Project.

Chicago-TIF_summary-2008 (pdf)Download

NO GAMES GET SOME CRED FROM THE ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY

"Olympic Risk – What will the Olympic bid cost Chicago?" from the August 2009 issue of Insight, the publication of the Illinois CPA Society. 

Olympic_Risk 8-09 (pdf)Download

no games refutes first place ranking of chicago bid

From June 9, 2009 - NBC News Chicago covers Aroundtherings.com ratings of the 2016 Olympic Bids, which placed Chincago at Number One. No Games Chicago refutes Chicago's top score. (3 min, 5 sec)

The No Games Chicago Story (In Brief)

Students from DePaul University made this short video in 2014 (5:20).

bonus video - no games organizer interviewed in 2022

Tom Tresser was interviewed by Tatevik Aprikyan for "The Why" on Newsy on Friday, February 4, 2022. www.scrippsnews.com/series/the-why. As the Winter Games opened in Beijing that same night, the question was why did we at No Games Chicago fight Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Games? See www.nogameschicago.com (8:34) 

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