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For anyone still bummed about Chicago's international "You've got a great personality, though" incident this morning, consider this: We had the games once - and we gave them away. Oh, yes. We first saw it posted on the ChicagoansForRio site (which has been updated in the past few hours, if you haven't visited lately) and checked it out - Chicago had been awarded the 1904 Games and passed them to St. Louis in order to prevent the country's smaller population from splitting the difference between the Games and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The exposition was held to celebrate the centennial of the Purchase, and introduced the world to the ice cream cone.