A friend e-mails:

Was in Chicago this week – all the cabbies talking about how the Daley cronies have bought up all the land by the Olympic village and the whole thing is crooked as the day is long…..fingers crossed for Rio.

I still hope Chicago gets it, but obviously the crooked establishment will get rich(er) off this. This may be the perfect way for Obama to pay back his former colleagues since it’s not like he can deliver a NASA compound or military base to the Chicagoland area.