List of nicknames for Chicago
"The Great American City" – taken from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer's book "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" (1968): "Chicago is the great American city ... perhaps [the last] of the great American cities"; "the notion that Chicago is arguably the most quintessential American city" was central to Robert J. Sampson's landmark research on communities, criminology, and urban sociology - Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2012)