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词条 List of city nicknames in Illinois
释义

  1. Nicknames by city

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. External links

This list of city nicknames in Illinois compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that Illinois cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders, or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity.[1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth"[2] are also believed to have economic value.[1] Their economic value is difficult to measure,[1] but there are anecdotal reports of cities that have achieved substantial economic benefits by "branding" themselves by adopting new slogans.[2]

Some unofficial nicknames are positive, while others are derisive. The unofficial nicknames listed here have been in use for a long time or have gained wide currency.

Nicknames by city

  • Algonquin – Gem of the Fox River Valley[3]
  • Arlington Heights – Action Heights
  • Aurora – City of Lights[4]
  • Batavia
    • The Windmill City[5]
    • City of Energy[6]
  • Beardstown – Watermelon Capital[7]
  • Bloomington – The Evergreen City[8]
  • Bloomington–Normal together
    • Blo-No[9]
    • The Twin Cities[10]
  • Buffalo Grove – The Gymnastics Capital of Illinois{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
  • Champaign-Urbana – Chambana[11]
  • Charleston – Chucktown[12]
  • Chester – The Home of Popeye[13]
  • Chicago
    • Mud City[14]
    • Chi-Town[15]
    • Chi-Raq
    • City in a Garden (literal translation of city motto, Urbs in horto)[16]
    • The City of the Big Shoulders[17] (from Chicago, a Carl Sandburg poem)
    • The City That Works (by Mayor Daley, for example[18])
    • The Second City[17]
    • The Windy City[17]
    • Murder City
    • The White City (referencing the World's Columbian Exposition)
    • The real Gotham (from Batman)
{{Details|List of nicknames for Chicago}}
  • Collinsville – Horseradish Capital of the World[19]
  • Crystal Lake – A Good Place to Live[20] Klondike [21]
  • Decatur
    • D-Town[22]
    • Soy Capital of the World (former nickname)[23]
  • DeKalb – Barbed Wire Capital of the World[19]
  • Des Plaines – City of Destiny [https://chicagocooperator.com/article/des-plaines]
  • Effingham – The Ham
  • Elgin
    • The City in the Suburbs[24]
    • The City to Watch[25]
  • Evanston – Heavenston[26]
  • Freeport – Pretzel City, USA[27]
  • Griggsville – Purple Martin Capital of the World[19][28]
  • Glen Ellyn – Babcock's Grove[29]
  • Huntley – The Friendly Village with Country Charm[30]
  • Joliet
    • City of Champions[31]
    • City of "Snap and Progress"[39]
    • City of Steel (or City of Steel and Stone)[39][32][33]
    • City of Stone[39][32]
    • Prison City (or Prison Town)[34][35][36]
    • J-Town
  • Kewanee – Hog Capital of the World[37]
  • Lombard – The Lilac Village[38]
  • Lisle –The Arboretum Village
  • Macomb – Home City of Elizabeth Magie[39], inventor of The Landlord's Game, precursor to Monopoly
  • Marion – Hub City of the Universe[40]
  • Marseilles – Martucky; Best Little City by a Dam Site[41]
  • Mattoon – Bagel Capital of the World[42]
  • Metropolis – The Home of Superman[43]
  • Midlothian – The Dirty M
  • Moline – Plow Capital of the World[7]
  • Monmouth – The Maple City[44]
  • Morton – Pumpkin Capital of the World[45]
  • Olney – Home of the White Squirrels[46]
  • Park Ridge– Home of the Hawks[47]
  • Pana – City of Roses[48]
  • Pekin
    • Celestial City[49]
    • Marigold Capital of the World.[50]
  • Peoria – P-Town, Baby Chicago
  • Quincy – Gem City[51]
  • Rantoul – Rantucky[52]
  • Rockford – The Forest City[53]
  • Skokie – Silicon Valley of the Midwest
  • Springfield
    • Flower City[49]
    • Springpatch[54]
  • St. Charles – The Pride of the Fox[55]
  • Teutopolis – T-Town
  • Thomson – The Melon Capital of the World[56]
  • Warrenville – For a Visit, Or a Lifetime[57]
  • Wilmington – The Island City[58]

See also

  • List of cities in Illinois
  • List of city nicknames in the United States
  • List of towns and villages in Illinois

References

1. ^1 2 {{cite web|author=Muench, David |url=http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/economies/communityindicators/communityslogans.pdf |title=Wisconsin Community Slogans: Their Use and Local Impacts |publisher= University of Wisconsin Extension |date=December 1993 |accessdate= April 10, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309175857/http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/economies/communityindicators/communityslogans.pdf |archivedate=March 9, 2013}}
2. ^1 {{cite web|last=Andia|first=Alfredo|title=Branding the Generic City :)|url=http://www.monu.org/monu7/Branding.pdf|work=MONU – magazine on urbanism|accessdate=14 January 2012|date=10 September 2007}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=History of Algonquin |url=http://www.algonquin.org/egov/docs/11441587979.htm |publisher=Village of Algonquin, IL |accessdate=14 January 2012 |date=9 February 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140803071129/http://www.algonquin.org/egov/docs/11441587979.htm |archivedate=3 August 2014 |df= }}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Aurora History – A Rapidly Growing City|url=http://www.aurora-il.org/aboutourcity.php|work=About Our City|publisher=City of Aurora, IL|accessdate=14 January 2012|quote=Later, when the City was the first in the United States to use electric lights for publicly lighting the entire City, it achieved the nickname of 'City of Lights'.|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120729181648/http://www.aurora-il.org/aboutourcity.php|archivedate=29 July 2012|df=}}
5. ^{{cite web|last=Schielke|first=Jeffery|title=Our Town|url=http://www.cityofbatavia.net/Content/templates/?a=679|work=Batavia History|publisher=City of Batavia|accessdate=14 January 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017070447/http://www.cityofbatavia.net/content/templates/?a=679|archivedate=17 October 2010|df=}}
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7. ^1 {{cite web|title=Community slogans about agriculture|url=http://www.epodunk.com/slogans/agriculture.html|publisher=ePodunk|accessdate=14 January 2012}}
8. ^Pantagraph.com | Sesqui! {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120912212913/http://www.pantagraph.com/cityguide/sesqui/growth1.php |date=2012-09-12 }}
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10. ^Pantagraph.com | Twin City Guide {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225204033/http://www.pantagraph.com/cityguide/ |date=2009-02-25 }}
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12. ^Daily Eastern News {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216015736/http://www.dennews.com/opinion/column-i-am-eiu-and-started-chuckvegas-too/article_1bb3fe00-3ea1-11e2-84ee-001a4bcf6878.html |date=2012-12-16 }}. Charleston is popularly referred to as Chuckvegas by Eastern Illinois University students.
13. ^City of Chester website. Chester was the home town of E. C. Segar, the creator of Popeye, and some characters in his cartoons were based on people of Chester.
14. ^"The city had been built, inexplicably, in the middle of a mud flat, which necessitated raising portions of the downtown area on stilts above the sloshy earth, giving Chicago the first of many nicknames: Mud City.", Paddy whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster, Thomas J. English, HarperCollins (c) 2005, {{ISBN|0-06-059002-5}}, pp73-74, https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060590031/paddy-whacked
15. ^Berman, John and Meewalla, Shani. When A Tattoo Goes Wrong, A Trend Develops. ABC News, April 7, 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
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17. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Chicago Nicknames|url=http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/chinicknames.html|publisher=Chicago Public Library|accessdate=8 August 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211235116/http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/chinicknames.html|archivedate=11 February 2008}}
18. ^030909-MotorcoachMap
19. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9F0CE6DC1430F931A2575AC0A965958260|title=The World Capital of Whatever|work=The New York Times|first1=Harold |last1=Faber|date=1993-09-12|access-date=2018-11-15}}
20. ^City of Crystal Lake. Accessed August 18, 2007.
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22. ^"Central Park skateboarders back to getting the boot – Mayor chases out those bored with their Fairview Park facility." Mike Frazier, Decatur Herald & Review, Saturday, November 11, 2006, p.A1
23. ^"ADM lunch puts soy in spotlight – The company spreads the word about food's health benefits." Paul Brinkmann, Decatur Herald & Review, Saturday, November 20, 1999 p.A1
24. ^City of Elgin Sustainability Action Plan, Version 2.1 (August 2011), City of Elgin website, accessed October 28, 2011
25. ^Elgin Fire Department 2006 Annual Report{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, City of Elgin website, accessed October 28, 2011
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27. ^{{cite web|title=City of Freeport, Illinois|url=http://www.ci.freeport.il.us/visitors/|publisher=City of Freeport, Illinois|accessdate=29 April 2012}}
28. ^Claims to Fame - Birds, ePodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.
29. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.dupagehistory.org/dupage_roots/Lombard_14.htm|title=History of DuPage County : Lombard|website=www.dupagehistory.org|access-date=2016-12-29}}
30. ^Village of Huntley. Accessed August 18, 2007.
31. ^Joliet JackHammers website {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221012625/http://jackhammerbaseball.com/kidszone/champ/ |date=2009-02-21 }} (accessed June 7, 2008)
32. ^1 Joliet, Illinois, Encyclopedia of Chicago
33. ^Tony Graf, Joliet’s oldest school building is a limestone classic {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012164516/http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/news/8102244-418/joliets-oldest-school-building-is-a-limestone-classic.html |date=2011-10-12 }}, The Herald-News (published by Chicago Sun-Times), October 9, 2011
34. ^1 2 3 Illinois Farmers' Institute (1919), [https://books.google.com/books?id=T04gAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 Annual Report and Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting Held in Joliet, Illinois, February 19, 20, and 21, 1919]. "Joliet is known as 'stone city,' 'prison city,' 'steel city,' and city of 'snap and progress.'
35. ^Joliet Central High School History, Joliet Township High School District 204 website, accessed October 28, 2011. Before 1935, the school's sports teams were known as "The Prison City Boys."
36. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20160403150319/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-149426028.html Joliet out to escape past ties to prison: City says its image is no longer behind bars], Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2006. "For the first time in nearly 150 years, calling Joliet a prison town would be just plain wrong, city officials contend."
37. ^Claims to Fame - Animals, ePodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.
38. ^Lombard Info {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527103741/http://www.nuhs.edu/show.asp?durki=283 |date=2010-05-27 }}, National University of Health Sciences, accessed April 21, 2007. "Held each year during the first three weeks in May, regardless of the vagaries of the growing season, Lilac Time is Lombard’s celebration of a 70-year-old horticultural tradition that has led to the town’s designation as “The Lilac Village,”"
39. ^Lizzie Magie, A wikipedia article... I have no regrets. Eli-magi 4eva
40. ^Sloganville Awards, Tagline Guru website, accessed October 28, 2011
41. ^Louis Miglio, "A Geography Alumnus Fondly Remembers," Glacial Deposits, Volume 29, 2000-2001, Illinois State University, pages 5-7
42. ^Claims to Fame - Food, ePodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.
43. ^Southern Illinois
44. ^City of Monmouth, IL – Fast Facts
45. ^Morton Pumpkin Festival Information, Morton Chamber of Commerce, accessed April 21, 2007. "Morton is the "Pumpkin Capital of the World". Home of Nestle/Libby's pumpkin packing plant, 80% of the world's canned pumpkin is processed here."
46. ^White Squirrel Wars, Roadside America, accessed April 21, 2007. "Olney, IL; Marionville, Missouri; Kenton, Tennessee; Brevard, North Carolina; Exeter, Ontario. Not one, but five towns use albino squirrels as their claims to fame, and none is particularly happy about the others."
47. ^[https://south.maine207.org/ Maine South High School]
48. ^City of Pana Illinois
49. ^1 Barry Popik, Smoky City, barrypopik.com website, March 27, 2005
50. ^Claims to Fame - Plants, ePodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.
51. ^Another Gem City Landing? {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000437/http://www.wgem.com/News/index.php?ID=11814 |date=2007-09-27 }}, WGEM, April 10, 2007, accessed April 21, 2007. "QUINCY – It was an event that attracted thousands of people from around the world to the Gem City and then it moved to a different location -- Rantoul."
52. ^{{cite news|last=Willhite|first=Lindsey|title=Rugged 'Rantucky' tough starting spot for Illini|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-9893197/Rugged-Rantucky-tough-starting-spot.html|accessdate=14 January 2012|newspaper=Daily Herald|date=4 August 2008}}
53. ^About Rockford {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301003705/http://ci.rockford.il.us/about/index.cfm |date=2009-03-01 }}, City of Rockford, Illinois website (accessed June 7, 2008)
54. ^The State Journal-Register: Seeking the origin of the term 'Springpatch'
55. ^St. Charles, Illinois Traffic Counts{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, City of St. Charles website, accessed December 6, 2010. "We're the Pride of the Fox, Come see why!"
56. ^Thomson Chamber of Commerce website (accessed June 8, 2008)
57. ^ , City of Warrenville website
58. ^The History of Wilmington, IL {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227222045/http://www.wilmington-il.com/history/ |date=2008-12-27 }}, City of Wilmington website

External links

  • a list of American and a few Canadian nicknames
  • U.S. cities list
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