President Obama is flying to Copenhagen today, and First Lady Michelle Obama will join him tomorrow to lobby the International Olympic Committee to choose Chicago as the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games.

Meanwhile, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro are also submitting their bids to host the summer Olympics.

Also part of the bid team? A slew of Olympic medalists and one of Chicago’s most famous personalities: Oprah Winfrey.

We’ll let the officials in Copenhagen have the final say, but if you want to learn more about what each destination has to offer, check out Peter’s mini-guides on Oprah.com.

Olympics 2016 Bid Cities Slideshow

If you want to learn more about the cities involved, don’t miss these articles on PeterGreenberg.com:

• Off the Brochure Travel Guide: Chicago, Illinois
• Off the Brochure Travel Guide: Tokyo, Japan 
• Off the Brochure Travel Guide: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Off the Brochure Travel Guide: Madrid, Spain

Want to learn what President Obama likes about his adopted hometown? Don’t miss President Barack Obama’s Chicago and Beyond.