The bid for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games has the Obamas and Oprah Winfrey backing Chicago in a big way. Sheila MacVicar reports. (CBS/AP) In a quick dash of salesmanship, President Obama is in the Danish capital, putting his personal powers of Continue ..

The bunting is out, the streets have been cleared, the troops are making their final preparations, and even the massive portrait of Mao on the Tiananmen Gate seems to wear a more self-satisfied expression than usual. Today, China will celebrate the Continue ..

The irony of the situation brought Niagara-on-the-Lake artist Trisha Romance back to her school days. The latest Niagara notable to be named an Olympic torchbearer, Romance said it was her three sisters who were the athletic ones when they were Continue ..

“There’s a culture of loyalty here,” said financier Tom Ricketts, a Chicagoan for two decades who has plunked down a Major League Baseball record $845 million to buy the Cubs, their ballpark, Wrigley Field, and a stake in one of the city’s two Continue ..

Oct. 2, 2009 | Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Mayor Richard M. Daley are in Copenhagen Friday morning, trying to persuade the International Olympic Committee that Chicago — our stormy, husky, brawling, crooked city by the lake — is the best Continue ..

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