Chicago and Windy City

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Chicago noun - Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan.

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Windy City and Chicago are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Windy City" instead a noun "Chicago".

Windy City noun - Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan.

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Chicago and Windy City are semantically related. You can use "Chicago" instead a noun phrase "Windy City".

Also, Chicago is known as the Windy City, and a lot of people pronounce "Wendy" with an I.

Source: Fridge / Music
Chicago: Most of the film takes place in the "windy city", where Ebert spent his entire career as a newspaperman.

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The Windy City: The film is set in and around Chicago (although it was filmed in Michigan).

Source: Film / Trust

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