I'm glad Chicago lost.
Obama failed to tell you Chicago was recently voted the #1 most stressful city in America:
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/am...ties-2009.html
Forbes rated it the third most miserable city in the country in their list of most miserable cities, declaring: "Lousy weather, long commutes, rising unemployment and the highest sales tax rate in the country are to blame for the Windy City being near the top of our list. High rates of corruption by public officials didn't help either:"
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/06/mos...le_cities.html
It has the "highest taxes of any major US city:"
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2...s-protest.html
It has a looooong history of organized crime which continues into the present:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime_in_Chicago
And it has had a very recent uptick of shocking violent crime:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/...ics/index.html
Everybody I know who lives in Chicago wants to move out.
Chicago is a freakin' hellhole and one of the last places I'd ever consider living, although Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, Stockton, Killadelphia, and Newark, NJ just barely edge it out from very bottom of the barrel. Chicago is not high on my list of places to visit either.
Between the corrupt government, the corrupt President pushing it, the high taxes, the high crime, the pollution, the cronyism, the gangsters, and the gangs... it is a good thing Chicago lost.
My vote is for Rio.