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Windy City (nickname) words, the Windy City is not a nickname Chicago gave itself, but rather something that the city has embraced over time. Chicago's wind is often called "The Hawk". This term has long been popular in African American Vernacular English. "The Baltimore Sun's" series of columns in 1934 attempted to examine the origin of the phrase, "Hawkins is coming", for a cold, winter wind. The first recorded Chicago citation is in the "Chicago Defender", October 20, 1936: "And these cold mornings are on us—in other words 'Hawkins' has got us." In the 1967 song, "Dead End Street", Chicago native Lou Rawls