2016

The year Chicago hopes it will host the Olympic Summer Games and put on the greenest Olympics. "We've got a real opportunity to take the best aspects of our city, the parks, the lakefront and the environmentalism and bring a real asset to the table. It's certainly one of the great strengths of the city of Chicago that we have to offer," said Chicago 2016 spokesman Patrick Sandusky in this article by the Associated Press. Plans for these "Blue-Green Games" include placing 91 percent of the athletes within close proximity of the venues where they'll compete. And as part of the Chicago 2016 bid's "innovative sustainability program," 22 of 27 venues are existing or will be temporary.