My Feb. 11 column from CBS Chicago …
(CBS) On Monday, the temperature reached 61 degrees in Sochi.
Here in Chicago, it bottomed out at minus-2.
Perhaps rather than chasing the Summer Olympics, we should have put in a bid to host the Winter Games instead. After all, they could attach a ski jump to the Willis Tower Skydeck, right?
OK, maybe not. But while watching the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi Olympics on TV last Friday night, I couldn’t help but feel a little melancholy that Chicago, truly one of the globe’s greatest cities, won’t get an opportunity to enjoy its own global stage come 2016.
Instead, Rio will get the chance to strut its stuff. And while I’m sure the Brazilians will put on a fantastic Carnival-themed show two years from now, I also couldn’t help but wonder just what the Windy City would have pulled off for its own Opening Ceremony.
Yes, one can joke about how the theatrics would have been a revue featuring the Blues Brothers, hot dogs, deep dish and Capone, but I doubt that Chicago’s Opening Ceremony would have actually featured any of those civic stereotypes.
At least I sure hope not.
But what might a Chicago Opening Ceremony have truly involved? Well, here are a few ideas:
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