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Chicago has ancestry in its corner in bid for Olympics
2007
Overview
Gilles de Navacelle finds it a bit unusual to speak for his great uncle, a man who died six years before he was born. Yet de Navacelle, who has lived in Lincoln Park since 1998, is so convinced Baron de Coubertin would like the idea of an Olympics in Chicago he has offered the family's support to help bring the 2016 Summer Games to the city. If Chicago were to become U.S. candidate for 2016, de Navacelle and his uncle, Geoffroy de Navacelle, who knew de Coubertin, would like the city's Olympic bid committee to avail itself of archives at a family home in Normandy and to use the facilities at the Chateau de Coubertin in the Paris suburbs as an occasional European base of operations. [De Coubertin] thought Chicago's Columbian Exposition, with grounds and buildings planned and designed by [Daniel Burnham], had the effect of exposing visitors to their own country. De Navacelle thinks the Olympics would have the equally significant effect of exposing the world to Chicago as the quintessential modern American city.
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