The Games were originally awarded to Chicago, but organizers of the World’s Fair in St. Louis feared competition for attendance and protested against a second international event held ...

St. Louis had scheduled to hold a world fair the same year and threatened to stage a rival sports event if they were not allowed to hold the Olympics. The support of the US President Theodore ...

The dress and coat worn by actress Judy Garland in the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” are part of a display inside the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park. “In our World’s Fair Gallery ...