In the post-mortem following the crashing and burning of Chicago's doomed Olympic bid, the question a lot of people are asking is, "What went wrong?"It seems to me the answer can be summed up in four words, à la James Carville:
It's the corruption, stupid.
John Kass offers a slightly longer explanation, and in so doing offers manfully to take the blame.
Andy Thayer (the police spy of all people!) actually wrote a first rate analysis of what went wrong:
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