The Windy City is perhaps Chicago's most famous nickname, and we immediately suppose it refers to the tremendous gusts that are channeled through the city's skyscrapers off of Lake Michigan . The city has become increasingly windy due to the enormous amounts of high-rise buildings built along the shore of the Great Lake. However, the name was coined long before the building projects began.
In the 1870's the editor of the New York Sun, Dana, coined the word in reference to Chicago politicians who would talk up their city much to chagrin of rival cities such as New York. Their bragging was considered just a bunch of empty wind, nothing but hot air. The nickname stuck, though the reasoning disappeared. Probably, visitors saw that the city did indeed live up to the hype and it wasn't just some politician's grandiose windbag.
In the 1870's the editor of the New York Sun, Dana, coined the word in reference to Chicago politicians who would talk up their city much to chagrin of rival cities such as New York. Their bragging was considered just a bunch of empty wind, nothing but hot air. The nickname stuck, though the reasoning disappeared. Probably, visitors saw that the city did indeed live up to the hype and it wasn't just some politician's grandiose windbag.
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