You might have thought it was because of something like this:
YOU COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG
First, Chicago has beaches, on FRESH water, right down town, right off the Central Business District. Here's Ohio Street Beach and North Avenue Beach:
Nice huh? You wouldn't think that white sand, spacious favela-free beaches with trolling pleasure boats would be right off a real urban downtown.
SECOND, while the Rio bathing beauties are beautiful and the stereotypical lovely be-thonged hindquarters are featured in the Brazilian national anthem, Chicagoans have buns that are just as delicious and mouthwatering:
So what could possibly be left? Nothing comes to mind, but it might be Bush's fault, for giving the fear that every foreign visitor to the Olympics will get a free finger-wave (not the hairstyle: look it up) at the border. This breaking news item sealed the deal for Rio:
The ‘keister bomb’ is the newest terror threat
By RICK MONTGOMERY
The Kansas City Star
Immigrant pleads guilty in Kansas smuggling case Al-Qaida’s new method of delivering a deadly payload — in effect a plastic explosive suppository
http://www.kansascity.com/...