Bill Scherr, a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Chairman of the Board for World Sports Chicago, a board member of Chicago 2016, and a 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, addressed a general session at Foley’s seventh annual National Directors Institute on March 6, 2008 in Chicago. Mr. Scherr discussed the significant efforts of Chicago 2016, a group dedicated to bringing the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games to the City of Chicago. Chicago 2016 has elaborate plans for its venues, most of which will be within 15 kilometers of its lakeside Olympic Village.
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