Way to go, Chicago 2016!!!!

Great News today, Chicago has been selected over Los Angeles to represent the United States as the Olympic host city in 2016.

We were in Tampa when they were putting together a bid to host the 2012 Games, losing out to New York City, which eventually lost out to London as the host city.

The Chicago bid may have been aided on the national level by the fact that LA-LA has hosted before. On the International level, they may benefit from the Olympics not having been in the US for many years, although I hear that we will be up against Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro among others.

It takes a certain amount of civic pride to put in a bid for something like this, in essence your city is acting as host to the world. Judging by what I've seen in the couple of years I've been in the area, there isn't a city around that would be a more capable and welcoming host than Chicago. The IOC makes it's decision in 2009, so good luck Chicago.