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::''"Hog butcher for the world,
Tool maker, stacker of wheat,
Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the big shoulders."''
:::— Carl Sandburg 's "Chicago" ( 1916 )

  • "The Windy City" — It is often recited—erroneously—that this nickname was first used by .



  • "Beirut by the Lake" — From a Wall Street Journal article during the Council Wars of the 1980's


  • "Chicago Works Together" — Developed by Burson-Marsteller, a public relations firm, and used on official stationery during the 1980s.


  • Chicagoland — A term for the city together with its surrounding suburbs, coined by the Chicago Tribune in the early 1900s. Correctly, the term encompasses the city and the nine counties around it; however, it is often mistakenly used to mean only the suburbs or in redundant phrases like "greater Chicagoland area."


  • Chi-town or simply "Chitown" — Pronunciation of this nickname can vary from to to .




  • "City of the Century."




  • "Garden City" — After the motto on the seal "Urbs in Horto."


  • "Hog-Butcher to the World" — From " Chicago ."


  • "I Will" City — From the "I Will" Symbol.



  • "Paris on the Prairie" — From the 1909 plan for the City of Chicago created by Daniel Burnham .



  • "That Toddling Town" — According to the lyrics of the song "Chicago" (music and words by Fred Fisher , 1922 ) also popularized by Frank Sinatra (as well as Tony Bennett ).