2007-04-14 12:38:41 · 9 answers · asked by Moe Hawk 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Chicago
The City of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as The Windy City. Possible explanations for this particular nickname include Chicago's weather, politics, World's Fair, and rivalry with Cincinnati.
The earliest known references to the "Windy City" are from 1876, and involve Chicago's rivalry with Cincinnati. A popular myth states that the term "Windy City" was first used by New York Sun editor Charles Dana in the bidding for the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The popularity of the nickname has endured, even after the Cincinnati rivalry and the Columbian Exposition both ended.
2007-04-14 15:34:15 · answer #1 · answered by vakayil k 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The term relates to the local politicians around here in the late 1880s. They convinced the powers to be that Chicago would be an excellent place for the 400th anniversary celebration of Columbus' discovery of the "New World." The celebration was to be in the form of a World's Fair in 1892.
The well-winded politicos out-talked those in Philadelphia and New York for the event and Chicago gained the title of the "Windy City."
This is an interesting similarity of the recent bid for the Olympics.
2007-04-14 13:38:44 · answer #2 · answered by tichur 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's even have been given no longer something to do with wind. The nickname "Windy city" became into given to Chicago as a results of fact whilst ny and Chicago have been competing for the international's honest over one hundred years in the past, a brand ny journalist commented that the Chicago politicians have been "old windbags."
2016-12-16 05:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by jeniffer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess because of all the wind blowing around the sky scrappers. If you ask me Oklahoma City should be called the windy city. If you wanna feel wind come down here lol.
2007-04-14 12:46:48 · answer #4 · answered by Bernard W 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the wind comes off of Lake Michigan and tends to blow hard throughout of the city, especially along Michigan ave. In the winter, the wind is bone chilling.
2007-04-14 15:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name has nothing to do with the local weather. The name was given to the city at the end of the 19th Century by NYC political writers who were alluding to the local politician's use of excessive verbiage -Really
2007-04-14 13:32:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the politics
but we do have a lot of wind so our name can be literal at times even though it was orginally meant to describe our political affairs
2007-04-14 16:16:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people eat a lot of pulled pork sandwiches there which gives them a lot of gas.
2007-04-14 15:16:05 · answer #8 · answered by $Sun King$ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
um... its windy?
2007-04-14 12:46:03 · answer #9 · answered by tarheel13169 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋