Do you capitalize city and state when it's used like City of Chicago or State of Illinois?

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Punctuation question...

Answer 1

In good contemporary journalism style we capitalize as little as possible. So we would say the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois. Chicago and Illinois are proper names and these are, of course, still capitalized.

If you look at any well-edited newspaper or magazine, you'll see references to the president of the United States, the prime minister of England, the U.S. secretary of state, and so on.

Excessive capitalization usually indicates a youthful writer or an adult writer trying to lend bombast and false importance to his text. The effect is the opposite, though, because the string of unnecessary capital letters jars the reader's eye slightly and makes the sentence less polished.

If you're in the Chicago area, here's a super reference for you: the University of Chicago Manual of Style. (The letters are capitalized in this reference because this is the title of the book. In a different context I might write this sentence: All newspaper style manuals are based on the granddaddy of them all, from the University of Chicago. And why do we capitalize "university" in University of Chicago? Because that's its proper name, whereas the proper name of Chicago is just Chicago and not the City of Chicago.)

And yes, the U of C style manual will tell readers to lower-case nouns when they're used as adjectives in identifying cities or states.

Good luck with your homework.

Answer 2

Yes, because city and state as in the examples you gave denote a specific city or state.

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I think you don't.
This is why....
When you name something like,
My dog is named Fred, you don't put,
My Dog is named Fred.
It is first inproper and isn't right capitalization.
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