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Armed with a balky bullhorn and handmade signs, about 250 opponents of Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid rallied Tuesday in front of City Hall to say: No, thanks.
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Many are from the group No Games Chicago. They came with a list of City Hall “failures” to argue that the games would be a boondoggle. Robert Johnson, 57, of Chicago, held a stick figure of Mayor Richard Daley in an orange prison jumpsuit. He worries the games would lead to “corruption on steroids.”
“I’m not anti-Olympics, I’m anti-Olympics in Chicago,” said Larry Rivkin, 57, of Wheeling: “It comes down to trust, faith and confidence. I have none of that here.”