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Originally Posted by galleyfox
FIFA's terms were downright awful. Basically trying to force Chicago to rebuild Soldier Field, while exempting FIFA from local labor and finance laws while giving them a 10 year tax break among other issues. Not to mention, megatournaments, even if the stadiums already exist, just bleed municipal cash.
Besides Chicago is the only city that can truly shuffle millions of people from coast to coast in short notice, so we'll be maxing out on tourists anyway. Many of whom will simply be touring the country after their team gets knocked out.
FIFA has more troubles. Cincinnati and Kansas City are the only representatives left in the Midwest, and those are less than inspiring destinations as far as mass tourism amenities go. Curious to see what they do there.
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Agree that FIFA was/is holding stadium hosts hostage. But they wont be giving a shit about missing Chicago. They still have 23 bids for 16 slots. I applaud Minny, Chi, San Diego and Vancouver for politely declining, or telling them to go f**k themselves, however it went down. Sorta like the Olympics bids.