Olympic committee in Chicago meets neighborhood resistance
The International Olympic committee’s visit in Chicago created quite a stir, because the positive responses from the committee’s members made it seem that Chicago was a viable contender for the 2016 Olympics. If the Olympics were to be in Chicago, the proposed site would be in the South Side ? Bronzeville to be exact. Bronzeville is a low-income community that has fought against wide-spread gentrification and is worried that having the Olympic site in their neighborhood may encourage this. Natalie Moore, reporter with WBEZ for the South Side Bureau, joins The Takeaway to talk about neighborhood reaction to the IOC meeting. She actually grew up in Bronzeville and still lives there today.
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