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While the International Olympic Committee won’t vote on which city gets the 2016 Summer Olympics until Oct. 2, Chicago 2016 is hard at work lobbying for support from Washington should the city be granted the Games.

             

Although Monday was President-elect Barack Obama's first full day in Washington, D.C., planning and preparation for the inauguration has been going on for at least a year. Here's a preview of the work that goes into building the infrastructure for the inauguration.

Today is the day that President-elect Barack Obama is scheduled to move from the South Side to Washington DC. Michelle and the girls scooted out of town yesterday, a day earlier that scheduled, apparently to give them more time to adjust before the girls start school tomorrow morning. The move was scheduled to accommodate the girls’ school schedule, which starts up tomorrow after the holiday recess.

O.K., Barack Obama has nothing directly to do with this, but Washington D.C. bars will be open 24-hours New Orleans style for the inauguration next year. No word yet on whether alcohol soaked Hurricane slushies will be sold and allowed to take into the streets in huge Styrofoam cups.

What's Carl's Itinerary?

Mena Trott & Andrew Anker of Six Apart

In an annual standard of living report, Chicago came in (tied with Washington DC) at 41st place. The study ranks the quality of life in the world's major cities. Zurich came in first, Baghdad last. The top US city is Honolulu. It's nice out and everyone's pulling out their bikes, but who needs a bike when you've got the LimoJet? The Bean is finally finished. Junk food in schools is still ok for now....

Governor Blagojevich was in Washington DC earlier this week in an attempt to turn his All Kids insurance plan into a national program. All Kids, which offers low cost health insurance to Illinois children, was signed into law by Blago last month, and is scheduled to officially begin in July of 2006, although pre-registration is currently underway on the program’s website. All Kids has garnered national attention as other states and the national government...

Emporis has ranked Chicago as the world's 4th most impressive skyline. Unforch, they assign points to buildings based on floor count and then a total number of points is calculated for each city and this is how they rank the cities. So, by "impressive" Emporis means "most floors". Hong Kong, New York City and Seoul, who ranked above us, are lucky because if by "impressive" they'd meant "beautiful" or "distinctive" then we'd for sure...

President's Day.. one of those holidays where you don't get mail and the banks close early, but otherwise it's a non-event. Does anyone *really* celebrate it? If you're lucky, and much of Chicagoist has been, you might get off work. But all we've done on this day off was laundry. Lots of loads of laundry. Whee! Here's a suggestion: Since we're (still) celebrating Lincoln's birthday, along with Washington's, on President's Day, why not make...