It Does Not Seem As Windy as All That to Me, But What Do I Know?
Stacey and I are taking a long weekend in Chicago for our 10th anniversary. Ideally, we'd be in Barcelona, but we didn't want to be away from Edward for more than a few days, and when "percentage of trip on airplane" approaches 25%...
Chicago's a great town for the way we like to vacation, that being to sleep in, eat well and often, take naps, and do everything else only as time allows.
Recommended So Far: The Amalfi Hotel, The Second City, the Chicago Chop House, Ken and Shiela.
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Dude, when are you going to be in Chicago? There's always a chance...
We're in Chicago even at this very moment, returning tomorrow mid-day.
(Also, as if in response to this very post, it has become windy today.)
Next time, then!
I read in The Devil in the White City that the "windy city" moniker was applied by a New York editor in response to the hot air from the City of Broad Shoulders regarding their bid for the Columbian Exposition.
Growing up in Chicago, the Windy City name is reputed to have come from internal politics as regarded by the outside world. Since then, I've read that the moniker was established for the sake of city tourism. From the Chicago Tribune, Sept. 1886:
"The name of 'Windy City,' which is sometimes used by village papers in New York and Michigan to designate Chicago, is intended as a tribute to the refreshing lake breezes of the great summer resort of the West, but is an awkward and rather ill-chosen expression and is doubtless misunderstood."
For the record, Dodge City, Kansas, apparently has the highest average wind speed in the US (at about 14.mph), but I can tell you that the wind in Cody, Wyoming gets going fast enough to blow your car door off if you open it at a bad time.