How Many Nicknames for Chicago Can You Come Up With? (Paris: live, town)

[Lookout Kid]

We all know the obvious ones:

The Windy City
Chi-Town
The City of Big Shoulders
The Second City

How many more can you come up with? Are there any new ones you've invented and want to help gain traction?

[sharkylittleton]

My buddy from LA whom just visited calls Chicago "The Chi."

[ERS-One]

-Popular amongst some people I know since the release of the Lord of the Rings films: "The Chi-re" or "Chire"

-From the Simpsons: "The Miami of Canada"

[sharkylittleton]

The Chill or Chi Ill

New York Done Right

[Bart0415]

"Big Onion",

supposedly having to do with the native-american origin of the word "Chicago"* and also inspired by New York's "Big Apple"

(*) From Wikipedia: The name "Chicago" is the French rendering of the Miami-Illinois name shikaakwa, meaning “wild leek.” The sound shikaakwa in Miami-Illinois literally means 'striped skunk', and was a reference to wild leek, or the smell of onions

[sharkylittleton]

I always liked concrete jungle, but that would depend on where you live.

[cubssoxfan]

"The City That Works" sometimes or if you know the right people

[UnderTheLiveOaks]

Chi-city
Chi-ve Cream Cheese
Chicken-in-the-car-and-the-car-won't-go
Chi Guevara
You're too Chi, Chi. Hush, Hush, eye to eye.

[lincolnparker]

Daleysland

[Lookout Kid]

Two more I thought of:

Beiruit by the Lake
Paris on the Prarie

Which is weird, because Beiruit was considered the "Paris of the Middle East" before it was ruined by civil war. So Chicago would be "The Paris of the Middle East by the Lake". Um, yeah.