Tom Tresser

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Tom Tresser

Tom Tresser is a Chicago-based civic educator and public defender who has spent 50 years doing grassroots democracy, community organizing, and work in the defense of public assets and services. He is the author of No Games Chicago: How a Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid (Routledge, forthcoming). He can be reached at: www.tresser.com.

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