No Games Chicago: How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City's 2016 Olympic Bid by Tom Tresser

No Games Chicago: How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City's 2016 Olympic Bid

Tom Tresser

228 pages first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction economics politics sports
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This book recounts the successful efforts of grassroots organization No Games Chicago to stop the 2016 Summer Olympics in a case study of local activism with international reach. Its strategies provide alternatives to tourism-centric megaprojects,...

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