Hundreds packed a room at the Chicago Urban League headquarters Tuesday night for a meeting about how a 2016 Olympics here would affect the Near and Mid-South sides.
A thread of skepticism -- if not a wholesale rejection -- passed through a number of the speakers' questions and comments.
Residents wondered if the benefits of a Games here would be shared broadly, implemented as promised, and what kind of pressure the Olympics would put on existing communities.
"There's a lot of people very disturbed about the direction this is going," 4th Ward resident Kay Carroll said of the bid. "There appears to be a small segment that has a vested interest who've benefited." Chicago Journal
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