where does the term windy city come from
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title: Windy City (nickname) text: Windy City (nickname) The city of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as the "Windy City". The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856. The first known repeated effort to label Chicago with this nickname is from 1876 and involves Chicago's rivalry with Cincinnati. The term "Windy City" came into common usage when it was popularized by New York City editor, Charles Dana, in "The Sun" during the bidding for the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Chicago won the Exposition, which did not please Dana. The popularity of title: Windy City (nickname) text: words, the Windy City is not a nickname Chicago gave itself, but rather something that the city has embraced over time. Chicago's wind is often called "The Hawk". This term has long been popular in African American Vernacular English. "The Baltimore Sun's" series of columns 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 title: Windy City (nickname) text: 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..." Various other cities have also claimed the nickname "Windy City". They include: Windy City (nickname) The city of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as the "Windy City". The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856. The first known repeated effort to label Chicago with this nickname is title: Windy City (nickname) text: other U.S. city. For example, the average annual wind speed of Chicago is ; Boston: ; Central Park, New York City: ; and Los Angeles: . The following "windy city" explanation is from the "Freeborn County Standard" of Albert Lea, Minnesota, on November 20, 1892: An explanation for Chicago being a naturally breezy area is that it is on the shores of Lake Michigan. Chicago had long billed itself as an ideal summer resort because of its cool lake breeze. "The Boston Globe" of July 8, 1873, wrote that "a few years ago, Chicago advertised itself as a summer resort, title: Windy City (nickname) text: it came down to New York and Chicago. In 1890, Chicago won the bid to host the World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, after eight ballots. Many prominent New Yorkers were extremely irritated that a "frontier town" could beat them. It is a popular myth that the first person to use the term "Windy City" was The New York Sun editor, Charles Dana. Charles Dana was New York's leading fair booster, but there is little evidence that he ever used the "Windy City" term. The first known attribution of Dana to the origin of "Windy City" was