Why is Chicago called the windy city?

Answer 1

The story you will commonly find is that it dates to shortly before the great World’s Columbian Exhibition of 1893. Chicago was putting forward its claim with great verve and bombast. This really got up the nose of people in New York, which was competing with Chicago to host the exhibition. Animosity became so bad that Charles A Dana, editor of the New York Sun, wrote an editorial telling New Yorkers to pay no attention to the “nonsensical claims of that windy city. Its people could not hold a world’s fair even if they won it”. The history books tell us that Chicago did win it and did hold it (and even made a profit from it). Books also tell us that the nickname of Windy City dates from that editorial.

Answer 2

The answer really is because Chicago is next to a large lake. Water heats and cools less rapidly than land. So, in the day time, as the land heats up from sunlight shining on it, the air over it begins to heat and rise, and the lake air flows in over the land, creating a breeze blowiing from the lake toward the land. This is called an off-shore breeze or wind. In the evening, the land cools faster than the water and situation reverses because now the lake is heating the air and the land is cooling it. So, the air heated by the lake begins to rise and the cooler air over the land flows toward the lake, reversing the direction of the wind, or breeze, from that of the day time. This is pretty much the situation near any large body of water, but the name stuck to Chicago and this is the reason for it being the "Windy City." It's not because everyone there eats beans, I'm glad to say.

Answer 3

Chicago got the nickname before hosting the 1893 World's Fair, because the promoters wouldn't shut up about how great the fair and the city was.

Answer 4

Acctually, it is called the windy city because of all of the hot air blown around by poloticians. Chicago has a ton of poloticians and a lot of scanals

Answer 5

I used to think that it was because it was very windy there. The truth of it, is Nicknamed that because of the "Winded Politicians."

Answer 6

The one I heard is it has to do with the geography and the arrangements of the buildings that can magnify a wind blowing through an alley or around the corner of a building making the wind pick up speed.

Answer 7

It's always windy

Answer 8

cus it's by a big body of watter and wind is sucked in to the city cus all the people creat heat from cars or them selvs and the hot air rises and the cool watter air ruses in and cuses a constint draft

Answer 9

probably cus it's mostly windy there, I heard it rains a lot over there.

Answer 10

because its very windy there