Antedating of "Windy City"

[Wilson Gray]

"A _tangle-foot_ whisky establishment"? I wonder whether its clientele
consisted of stumble-bums. ("That's a joke, son!" to borrow Senator
Beauregard Claghorn's catchphrase.)

-Wilson

On 11/6/06, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Windy City (OED 1887, Popik 1876)
>
> 1860 _Milwaukee Daily Sentinel_ 4 July 1 (19th Century U.S. Newspapers)
> We are proud of Milwaukee because she is not overrun with a lazy police
> force as is Chicago -- because her morals are better, he [sic] criminals
> fewer, her credit better; and her taxes lighter in proportion to her
> valuation than Chicago, the windy city of the West.
>
> 1869 _Milwaukee Daily Sentinel_ 28 Apr. (19th Century U.S. Newspapers)
> Chicago is evidently appreciated by the people of Gotham, as witness the
> following from the New York _World_: ... The windy city is to become the
> paradise of parks, and the modern-created Eden is to be the grand watering
> place of the world.
>
> 1870 _Daily Cleveland Herald_ 4 June (19th Century U.S. Newspapers)
> CLEVELAND vs. CHICAGO.  The Great Game Between the Forest City and Chicago
> Clubs -- The Windy City Wins by a Score of 15 to 9 -- A Hotly Contested
> Game.
>
> 1875 _St. Louis Globe-Democrat_ 8 June 2 (19th Century U.S. Newspapers)
> From the Cincinnati Commercial. ... As might be expected, he next visited
> Chicago, and invested his capital in a tangle-foot whisky establishment,
> and some loose matrimonial bonds which he found lying around loose in that
> windy city.
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> Fred Shapiro
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