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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. [1] The first known repeated effort to label Chicago with this nickname is from 1876 and involves Chicago's rivalry with Cincinnati.
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. [1] The first known repeated effort to label Chicago with this nickname is from 1876 and involves Chicago's rivalry with Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, Queen City of the West: 1819-1838 (1942, reprint 1992), online; Beckman, Wendy. 8 Wonders of Cincinnati (Arcadia Publishing, 2017). Birch, Eugenie L. "The imprint of history in the practice of city and regional planning: lessons from the Cincinnati case, 1925–2012." in The Routledge Handbook of Planning History (Routledge, 2017 ...
Map of Cincinnati neighborhoods. Cincinnati consists of fifty-two neighborhoods. Many of these neighborhoods were once villages that have been annexed by the City of Cincinnati. The most important of them retain their former names, such as Walnut Hills and Mount Auburn. [1]
Origin dates at least to 1860s[edit] The nickname is clearly older than the 1870s. A casual search of Newspapers.com easily finds references to Chicago being called "the Windy City" as early as 1867, and it's clearly an established nickname by then. I found one "the windy city" in the Chicago Tribune in 1858 even.
Cincinnati (/ ˌ s ɪ n s ɪ ˈ n æ t i / SIN-sin-AT-ee; nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. [10] Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky.
Area code (s) 513, 283, 859, 937, 812. The Cincinnati metropolitan area (also known as the Cincinnati Tri-State area or Greater Cincinnati) is a metropolitan area with its core in Ohio and Kentucky. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Its largest city is Cincinnati and includes surrounding counties in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
GNIS feature ID. 0428803. Website. chicago.gov. Chicago[a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.