Antedating of "Windy City"

[Joel S. Berson]

And I want to know why Boston isn't called The Windy City, since it
has a higher average wind speed than Chicago?

Joel

At 11/6/2006 12:48 PM, you wrote:
>Is there anything in the rest of the context of these cites to nail
>down the meaning of windy city, ie does it in fact come from windy
>politicians, as all my Chicago we-know-more-than-you-silly New
>Yorkers-do relatives insist, or meteorological wind? Or what?
>
>Dennis
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>On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Fred Shapiro 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.
>
>Fred Shapiro
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