CHICAGO - TRIVIA

Chicago is known as the Second City because it was historically the second largest city in the U.S.

Chicago is known as the Windy City not because of its weather but its boasting. In the early nineteenth century, Chicago promoters went up and down the East Coast loudly promoting Chicago as an excellent place to invest. Detractors claimed they were full of wind. Later, when Chicago and New York were competing to hold the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, a New York editor described Chicago as a windy city. Chicago won the competition and held the fair.

The first McDonald's franchise was opened in Chicago in 1955.

Chicago is home to the first Ferris Wheel, zipper, and Cracker Jacks, among many other things.