The city of Chicago expressed some interest, he said, and one foreign automaker chipped in a few dollars.

The city has also expressed an interest in courting additional airlines to serve the airport.

Early in the fall, both the city and the union expressed optimism about reaching a contract agreement.

Each city has expressed interest in landing an expansion team.

Alinghi hopes to announce a site in three months and said several cities had already expressed interest.

But the city has expressed only lukewarm interest in the idea, saying the airport land is worth closer to $2 billion.

Several other cities, including Bristol, have expressed an interest in becoming the site for the headquarters.

Four cities had expressed interest in hosting the 2017 Games.

Eleven cities expressed interest in hosting the Games, nine of which ultimately applied.

Three French cities had expressed interest in bidding for the Games.