“It seems that all four bids are equally qualified to come in first — as well as last place — in the voting,” says Robert Livingstone, who runs GamesBids.com.

• Chicago 2016 Bid Losing Steam? (Chicagoist): “If Mayor Daley seems like he’s in a fouler mood than usual this week, it’s because the Chicago 2016 bid has hit some turbulence. The Olympics-related business site GameBids released its latest bid index rating yesterday (the first update since November) and it doesn’t bode well for Chicago. Not only has Chicago dropped to last place among the four finalists, it’s the only city’s whose index went …”(Via Yahoo Search: chicago 2016&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt.)
• No Medal for Chicago’s 2016 Olympic Bid (NBC 5 Chicago): “Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics ‘recorded the only BidIndex decline since the last update in November,’ according to GamesBids.com.”(Via Yahoo Search: chicago 2016&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt.)
• Chicago falls to last place in 2016 Games ranking: Web site (Crain’s Chicago Business): “(Crain’s) — Chicago slipped into last place among the four cities competing for the 2016 Games in a ranking by the Web site GamesBids.com, which is run by a Toronto-based Olympic historian. Chicago’s score fell only slightly in a very tight race with Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. …” (Via Yahoo Search: chicago 2016&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt.)
• Chicago’s Odds of Winning The 2016 Games (FOX News Chicago): “An independent Web site that ranks the prospects of cities winning Olympic bids says Chicago’s odds of winning the 2016 games are the worst of the four cities in the running.”(Via Yahoo Search: chicago 2016&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt.)

(The comments at chicagobusiness are worth reading.)