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Actually, you’d be right, but you’d be fighting an uphill battle against the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Chicago Public Library. The above quote comes from the November 20 New York Times, in which Jeff Zeleny writes about the national attention currently focused on Chicago, the home base of our next president. And just as Zeleny erroneously believes Chicago’s famous nickname originated with windbag politicians in the late 19th century — New York Sun editor Charles Dana wrote about “the nonsensical claims of that windy city” as Chicago pols loudly wooed the organizers of the 1893 world’s fair — he uses “bellowing” instead of “billowing” to describe the wind that blew toward New York from the mouths of the city’s former leaders.
So it’s settled, right? No, probably not, unless Obama can be persuaded to set things straight in his inaugural address.
