Blowhard Metropolis: Why Chicago’s Wind Still Shapes the World’s Weather—Financial and Otherwise
CHICAGO—Somewhere between the 18th-century fur trapper’s “Checagou” and the modern tourist’s Instagram grid, the Windy City learned to weaponize its own nickname. Locals insist the moniker was originally a dig at bloviating politicians, not the lake-effect gusts that peel toupees off bankers on LaSalle Street. Outsiders, of course, prefer the meteorological interpretation because it’s easier…