Olympic Stuff

Some damn funny readers out there. Creative, too:

And there are hints of protests in the works by "neighborhood activists"

• International Olympic Committee members making their final site visit to Chicago April 2-8 will face “demonstrations in the streets” unless the City Council approves an ironclad contract by then outlining community benefits, activists warned Wednesday.

  The benefits they’re seeking include a guarantee that 50 percent of all Olympic construction contracts be awarded to minorities and women and that 30 percent of all units at the $1.1 billion Olympic Village built on the campus of Michael Reese Hospital be made affordable.

Well, unless they're part of a selected few construction companies already doing City work, we'd imagine they're out of luck. We're pretty sure the contracts for this stuff have been agreed to on the sly for quite a while now.