Chicago Voted Out

In Chicago, 2016 will just be another year. The International Olympic Committee annonced that Chicago was the first city to be elimanated.

Thousands of people are standing in stunned silence in downtown Chicago after watching the IOC choose someone else for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

The vote in Copenhagen was carried on huge television screens in the Daley Center, set up to carry what many had hoped would be approval of Chicago to host the games.

Instead, Chicago was bounced in the first round of voting Friday, bringing an audible gasp heard from the crowd. Chicago was thought as the favorite to win the 2016 Olympics along with Rio.

The city was eliminated so quickly that some of the would-be revelers weren’t sure what had happened. Some started asking if they had heard what they thought they heard.

Many stood for a few minutes, staring at the screen, and at least one flung his hands into the air in a crude gesture toward the TV screen.

Within seconds, people began filing out of the plaza.

Chicago was in a race with Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo and Madrid for the 2016 games. Tokyo was knocked out in the second round, surviving one round longer than Chicago