no games inspired a number of grassroots documentaries!

No Games Chicago April 2009 Rally

From April of 2009 - Chicago Independent Television produced this 6 and a hald minute video documenting the No Games April 2 rally in Federal Plaza and the march to the Chicago 2016 HQ at the Aon Building.

The Inspiring Story of the Chicago Anti-Olympics Movement

From October of 2011. The 2016 Summer Olympics were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, but Chicago submitted an unsuccessful bid for the games. In this segment, we learn more about that bid, what it would have meant for Chicago, and how Chicago activists worked furiously to block that bid. From Independent TV CITV -http://chicago.indymedia.org. (8 min, 10 sec)

The No Games Chicago Story

This video was created by DePaul media students in 2014. The simple URL for this video = http://tinyurl.com/NoGames-short-video. (5 min, 20 sec)

The No Games Chicago History

Tom Tresser told the story of the No Games Chicago campaign (http://www.nogameschicago.com) to organize against and derail the bid for the 2016 Olympics. This event was recorded by Tim Bolger (http://www.timsvideo.com) at the October 16, 2010 meeting of the College of Complexes (http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org). (1 hour, 5 min) The simple URL for this video = https://tinyurl.com/No-Games-History.

The Burnham Plan & The Olympic Bid