Good for Chicago

The great city has been spared the unpredictable chaos of hosting the Olympics, as many Chicagoans hoped would be the case. Much of the media is fixated on the conservative reaction to Obama’s failure to bring the 2016 games to the home of his native political machine, but regular residents have dodged a huge price-tag. In this as in so much else, the failure of the president is actually a victory for the American people.