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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 05:54:01 CST
- From: <U16028@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92356.055401U16028@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: chi.general
- Subject: RE: The Windy City
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- A few weeks back someone posted asking about the nickname "The Windy City."
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- I saw this in the Dec. 20, 1992, issue of the Sun-Times --
-
- "The Windy City"
-
- There's an ugly reason why Chicago is known as the "Windy City." It's called
- New York City.
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- When Chicago -- hardly America's windiest city -- was vying to become the site
- of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, its chief rival was New York.
-
- Newspapers in each city tried to present well-reasoned arguments touting their
- town for the fair.
-
- In Chicago, for example, one newspaper said New York shouldn't get the fair
- because it's "the meanest city in America."
-
- For its part, New York mostly treated Chicago like lint.
-
- New York Sun editor Charles Dana, portraying Chicagoans as loud, self-promoting
- blowhards, told his readers 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."
-
- Of course, Chicago did win it, held it and lived happily ever after, as did
- the name "Windy City."
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- Terry
- U16028@uicvm.uic.edu
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