Chicago - The Windy City Men's Shirt

About This Shirt Chicago's nickname, "The Windy City," has so many origin stories you would think Chicago was a comic book character! First, there is the obvious origin: the weather. Chicago, Illinois is the kind of town where you can have sunshine, snowfall, and a thunderstorm in one day! This amazing hodgepodge of weather phenomena can be attributed to the beautiful Lake Michigan, the place to party in the summer and the place that crashes the party in the winter. Wind, bitter cold and biting winters; that is the kind of weather that Lake Michigan blesses us with every year which makes the name "Windy City" an appropriate handle for Chicago. The second origin dates back to the late nineteenth century when Cincinnati began referring to Chicago as "The Windy City". There is also the long history of long-winded politicians who speak so much that their talking generates a lot of wind. The World's Fair was also an origin for the nickname when The New York Sun editor, Charles A. Dana, refe