Daley and his lead salesman, insurance titan Patrick Ryan, touted the enterprise about a decade ago as a way to polish Chicago's image on the world stage and create thousands of jobs as facilities were built in some of the city's neediest neighborhoods — a point of view still held by some civic leaders. But for a city with a hobbled public school system, a massive debt load and a soaring homicide rate, the prospect of spending an estimated $4.8 billion in private and public money on an Olympic Games looks far less appealing to many now than it did in 2009 when Chicago lost its bid.