in 1934 attempted to examine the origin of the phrase, "Hawkins is coming", for a cold, winter wind. The first recorded Chicago citation is in the Chicago Defender, October 20, 1936: "And these cold mornings are on us – in other words 'Hawkins' has got us." In the 1967 song, "Dead End Street", Chicago native Lou Rawls speaks the following intro: It is also referenced in the first line of Steve Goodman's song, "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request", is "By the shores of old Lake Michigan / Where the Hawk Wind blows so cold..." Other cities Various other cities have also claimed the nickname "Windy City". They include: Baku, Azerbaijan, Küləklər şəhəri ("the City of Winds") Edinburgh, Scotland Essaouira, Morocco, "Wind City of Africa" Hsinchu, "Windy City" of Taiwan Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Luleå, Sweden, Den blåsiga staden ("The Windy City") Majalengka on Java, Indonesia ("the City of Wind") Pachuca, Hidalgo in Mexico, La Bella Airosa ('The Beautiful Windy One') Port Elizabeth, South Africa Wellington, New Zealand Zaragoza, Spain, La ciudad del viento ("The Windy City") Davao, Philippines Sliven, Bulgaria Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Notes External links Studies in Slang, VII, 2006, pp. 50–71, Barry Popik, academic investigation of Windy City. See also a letter in USA Today by Popik. Windy City by Michael Quinion at WorldWideWords.org Windy City, The Straight Dope. Ongoing updates to the source of the name. Nathan Bierma, "Windy City: Where did it come from?", Chicago Tribune, Dec. 7, 2004, Tempo section, pp. 1, 5. Reprinted in Studies in Slang, VII, 2006, pp. 72–77. History of Chicago Windy City Windy City