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after reading to articles, one specifically on austrialia and the other that took a more general look at the trends of the effects of the olympics on a city i still don’t know wether it is a good or bad idea to bring the olympics to chicago.

for one thing, in australia the olympics allowed for a more publisized struggle of the rights of the indigenous people who live there. i mean i’m sure if the olympics were to come to chicago a variety of people would take advange of the publicity to bring light to their efforts for social justice.

one article mentioned how there were a lot of jobs created, like in the service industry, but these jobs did not stay. they were there for a short period of time. i guess the challenge would be finding out how to keep these jobs, or create more stable ones.  

http://www.real.uiuc.edu/news/OlympicImpact_2006.pdf 

the article on australia mentioned that most people were volunteers. that would have to be true in chicago as well other wise the cost would go up a lot. acording to the report i read the cost would have increased by A$140 million if the volunteers had been payed.  

something we mentioned in class was that the public transportation would have to be improved, since now it is getting more and more expensive and many routes are being taken off. it seems to me that to bring the olympic would requiere the city to at least try to fix that.

 revenue might come in from tourists but we already have high tourism, so would the impact last?

i’m more concerned about how the neighborhood would be affected, would prices in housing inrease? would police get more strict to try to make it seem like the city has no problems (and end up profiling more than it already does)? i could not find these answers when i looked but i am concerned about that.