Windy City
Although Chicago is known as the Windy City, it is in fact less windy than many other major American cities. Average wind speeds range from 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) in late summer to 12 miles per hour (19 km/h) in spring months. The "Windy City" moniker is actually believed to be a reference to the boostering politicians of Chicago from the 1800s. The phrase may have also been created by Chicago tourism boosters promoting the city, cooled off by breezes from Lake Michigan, as an ideal summer destination.
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Famous quotes containing the words windy and/or city:
“Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 16:3.
“Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)