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CoralFarmerNY

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Ok so I was watching oddities and they went to Chicago

Why do they call it the Windy City?

Has any one visited woolly mammoth? That place looks crazy. Being a collector my self of the odd and strange I was wondering if that cat and mouse was still for sale :)
 
The wind does blow in Chicago, but not enough to earn it the nickname of the "Windy City." That moniker was bestowed on the city by the New York press in the late 1800s. According to the Chicago Public Library, Chicago and New York were competing to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition, and the Chicago politicians were loudly boasting their city's virtues. Charles Dana, of the New York Sun, wrote an editorial against Chicago hosting the fair by advising against the "nonsensical claims of that windy city." This editorial is credited as the origin of Chicago's famous nickname.

Chicago's average annual wind speed of 10.4 m.p.h., while respect-able, only places it about fifteenth in the national ranking. The windiest city in the United States is Blue Hill, Mass., (10 miles south of Boston) at 15.5 m.p.h

Thanks google
 
A&A Aquatics said:
Lol I never knew that, is Chicago also called twin citys
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no, but some other nicknames:

"The Second City" - This was a derogatory nickname for the city used in a 1950s New Yorker article
"City of Broad Shoulders" or "City of the Big Shoulders" - From Carl Sandburg's 1916 poem, "Chicago"

and the most recent one

"Chi-beria" - A play on Siberia, a nickname largely used during the 2014 North American Cold Wave
 
Also chi-raq a play on Iraq because of all the gunfire and murders in our glorious city

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As long as nobody uses this term, we will be ok. I hate that we have that nickname. I get the logic and it really is true but man I just hate it.
 
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