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Saint Louis has three of the Major sports franchises based in the city. The Saint Louis Cardinals, a Major League Baseball team, Saint Louis Blues (National Hockey League) and the Saint Louis Rams (National Football League). The city Borders, but is not part of Saint Louis County, Missouri. The Saint Louis metropolitan area, which includes counties in both Missouri and Illinois, is the eighteenth largest in the United States. The population of the City of Saint Louis is 348,189. The city after hosting the Worlds Fair became the first English speaking country to host the Olympic games in 1904. The uranium used in the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb was refined in Saint Louis by Mallinckrodt Chemical Co., starting in 1942. The Pruitt-Igoe housing project, built in 1955 and demolished in 1972, is one of the most infamous failures of urban planning. The buildings were the first major work by Minoru Yamasaki, who later designed the then World Trade Center. Saint Louis is the center of operations for Anheuser-Busch Breweries, as well as Monsanto, formerly a chemical company and now a leader in genetically modified crops, and Solutia, the former Monsanto chemical division that was spun off as a separate company in 1997, also two local brokerages, A.G. Edwards and Edward Jones. It is also the site for the headquarters of Energizer, the battery company. Saint Louis is home to major car plants; two DaimlerChrysler plants in the nearby suburb of Fenton, Missouri. A General Motors plant in suburban Wentzville, MO; and a Ford Motor Company plant in Hazelwood, MO. Some of the famous residents of Saint Louis, past and present are; Chingy, Jimmy Connors, Miles Davis, Dan Dierdorf, William Inge, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Eugene Field, Kevin Kline, Albert King, Scott Joplin, Elijah Lovejoy, Ed Macauley, Marsha Mason, Mark McGwire, Archie Moore, Stan Musial, Agnes Moorehead, Nelly, Joseph Pulitzer, Vincent Price, Ozzie Smith, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Ike Turner, Tina Turner and Dick Weber.