Chicago isn’t even the windiest city in the USA. Living on the plains for years, I can personally vouch for how windy The O.K.C. is .
Look at Amarillo, Abeline, Cheyene, Dodge City, Casper, OKC, Fargo, Boston, Wichita, Springfiled, Corpus Christi, NYC, Billings, etc … on this list compared to Chicago.
It gets a whole Wikipedia disambiguation page: Windy City - Wikipedia
For extreme winds, I suggest the F5 tornados. A wind speed of 318 mph was recorded near OKC, OK on May 3, 1999.
And Mt Washington in New Hampshire has recorded 231 mph. Current weather.
Huntsville, AL is nicknamed “Rocket City”. As you drive into the city from the north one of the first things you’ll see is a full-size replica of the Saturn V Rocket at the US Space and Rocket Center.
Gee, I don’t see this one yet: Camarillo (CA) - The Lima Bean Capital of the World.
I’m so proud . . .
Baltimore is Charm City.
A public relations campaign years ago tried “The City That Reads” but that got morphed into “The City That Breeds” because of the insanely high teen birth rates.
Natty Boh beer often called Baltimore The Land of Pleasant Living in their ads.
Cecil did a column about the nickname. This [thread=293759]thread[/thread] has a discussion and related links.
Babylon by the Bay, actually, as coined by the late, great columnist, Herb Caen.
I’m not debating that Chicago is called The Windy City. It obviously is. What I’m pointing out is that it’s a mistake to take that firmly entrenched nickname and assert that it means Chicago is the windiest city, which many people mistakenly do.
Yes. Yes they do. I’ve heard 'em.
Just like my friends calling me a Big Ox. I’m not an ox. There are oxen bigger than me. Hell, there are people bigger than me. And yet I am, “NCB, that Big Ox.”
So, what is in a name? Would a rose, by any other name and whot not…
Burlington, VT is yet another ‘Queen City.’
Troy, NY is ‘The Collar City.’
LOL…I got married in Eureka Springs, AR…second time…she was my ex HS sweetheart…didn’t work, OK I know TMI…
FTR not a city but all of Illinois South of I64 is little Eygypt…and Carbondale is C’dale…
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I just thought it might be an interesting read. I didn’t mean to contradict you or anything. FTR, I had always believed the story about it referring to politicians rather than weather.
Which of these are nicknames and which are slogans?
For instance, San Diego is “American’s Finest City,” but nobody actually calls it that, whereas everyone says “TJ” for Tijuana (aka “The Armpit of the World,” a bit unfair in my opinion).
People call Aberystwyth (aka “Aber”) “The San Francisco of Wales,” but I’m never sure which city that’s actually meant to insult.
Oh.
I blame all that cappaccino.
It was inded an interesting column.
Boise, Idaho- “The City of Trees” or “Tree City”. The name “Boise” is derived from the French word for tree. Pocatello is called “Poky” by those who can’t be bothered to pronounce the extra two syllables. Likewise, Twin Falls is “Twin” for short.
Never knew that one! Like it!
Memphis - Bluff City, River City, City Beautiful
Nashville is, of course, Music City.
Boston is also “The Hub”
“Lynn, Lynn, (MA), the City of Sin” (only cuz it rhymed).
Beverly MA (used to be, maybe still) = “The City in the Country By the Sea”.
Salem MA = “The Witch City”
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Although I’ve heard “Babylon by the Bay” used occasionally, the one coined by Herb Caen was indeed twickster’s offering of Baghdad by the Bay.
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Another of New Orleans’ nicknames has been “The City that Care Forgot”, although unfortunately there hasn’t been much occasion to call it that in the last year or so. 
Although Paris is often called “The City of Lights”, the French term is “la ville lumière”, which is closer to “The City of Light”. [I also prefer the latter translation because the former sounds more appropriate for Las Vegas than for Paris. It’s the quality of light that enters your soul, not flashing neon!!!]