Amid all the media blathering about why the 2016 Olympics aren’t going to be in Chicago — can you believe it? they lost out to such cheesy places? this really shows that Obamamania has run its course! etc. — comes an analysis that’s quite revealing about Chicago’s last-place finish in the compeition, which seems to have turned much more on the frosty relations between the USOC and the IOC than anything else. It’s a good read — and a good rejoinder to the inside-the-Beltway tendency to see everything that happens in the world as a direct response to or reflection on what goes on in this city.