Grant Park Advisory Council and Grant Park Conservancy public meeting:
Tuesday, March 31, 2009.....6:30pm

Daley Bicentennial Plaza Fieldhouse
337 E. Randolph ( just east of Columbus Drive)

Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid and its impact on Grant Park and Northerly Island

Chicago 2016 representatives and others will give a presentation and take public input on Chicago plans for the 2016 Olympics.

Please contact: Bob O'Neill
Phone: 312-927-6795
boboneill@grantparkconservancy.com

Security, i.e., public safety, should be a major concern for the Olympics, especially since some of the venues will be located in "marginal" communities. Also, traveling through some of these "economically depressed" areas may panic some potential Olympic patrons. There may also be protests or demonstrations staged by the downtrodden when they juxtapose their poverty against the opulence of the Olympic mystique. Increased police presence may not solve the problem either, cf., the 1968 democratic convention.