By now, most everyone has at least HEARD about the city's bid to host the 1016 Summer Olympics. Chicago is now the official United States bid city for those games, having beat out San Francisco. Are the odds stacked up against a city with a decaying transportation network from a country that has already hosted 8 games (if the Winter Games are counted)? The competition is formidable: Tokyo, Rio De Janeiro, Madrid, Doha, Baku and Prague. Mayor Daley has invested heavily in attempting to bring the games to the Windy City but in the end, only time will tell if Chicago will get to host the Olympic Games...although in 1904 Chicago was meant to host the games only to have them moved to St. Louis to coincide with the World's Fair in that city. Since then, Chicago has maintained its national and global importance while STL's has sunk considerably. Perhaps the city jinxed itself?
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