Windy City Explained

Windy City may refer to:

Cities

• Chicago, Illinois ("Windy City")
• Wellington, New Zealand
• Baku, Azerbaijan, Küləklər şəhəri ("the City of Winds")
• Balkanabat, Turkmenistan
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• Essaouira, Morocco
• Hsinchu, "Windy City" of Taiwan
• Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
• Luleå, Sweden, Den blåsiga staden ("The Windy City")
• Majalengka in West Java, Indonesia ("the City of Wind")
• Nganjuk in East Java, Indonesia
• Pachuca, Hidalgo in Mexico, La Bella Airosa ('The Beautiful Windy One')
• Port Elizabeth, South Africa
• Zaragoza, Spain

Entertainment

• Windy City (musical), based on the play The Front Page
• Windy City (film), a 1984 film
• "(Just Blew in from the) Windy City", a song from the 1953 film musical Calamity Jane
• Windy City (album), a 2017 studio album by bluegrass-country artist Alison Krauss
• Windy City Breakdown, a 1977 album by Jonathan Cain

Sport

• Metro Squash Windy City Open, a squash tournament held annually in Chicago
• Windy City (horse) (1949–1964), Thoroughbred racehorse
• Windy City Bulls, an NBA Developmental League franchise based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois owned by the Chicago Bulls

Other uses

• Windy City Times, a Chicago LGBT newspaper