Chicago’s failed 2016 Olympics bid: Seats in Olympic stadium would have converted to wheelchairs
Written by admin2 on October 7th, 2009Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board
According to Lisa Donovan’s September 26th article for the Chicago Sun-Times, if the city of Chicago had won its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, the stadium that was planned would have been “one of the more handicapped-friendly venues ever built.” In addition to being fully accessible, the city was working on design plans to convert up to 50,000 of the planned 80,000 seats at the temporary stadium into wheelchairs. The chairs, which would have cost an estimated $100 to $200 each, would subsequently have been donated to disabled people in developing countries.
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