Chitown

Chi-town

A nickname for the city of Chicago, Illinois. Oh, when you're in Chi-town this weekend, you have to check out the Bean and go to a Cubs game.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Chi(town)

(ˈʃɑɪtɑʊn and ˈtʃɑɪtɑʊn)
n. Chicago, Illinois. I can’t wait to get back to old Chitown.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Chi-town
  • not a bean
  • A-town
  • Bean Town
  • Beantown
  • bean wagon
  • Gooner
  • bean time
  • honeycakes
  • Bari
References in periodicals archive
$408,000; 1226 Byrne Blvd, Vernon Hills, 60061; Sold on June 7, 2019, by Chitown Millco VH Multifamily to Lin Xie.
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From that day forward, I had a mother in Chitown and a father in the Illinois state prison system.
TO INSTILL LOVE FOR MY PEOPLE: Reassembling the Social in a Time of Mass Criminalization
While the Giants' NLDS defeat at the hands of the (for the first time in 71 years) pennant-bound Chicago Cubs was tough to take--this being an even-numbered year, the Giants were supposed to add to their World Series titles of 2010,2012, and 2014--there is solace in the fact that they did beat the New York Mets in the Wild Card playoff before falling to the Chitown juggernaut.
SF Santa says it's batter up
Easter in Chicago: Celebrate Easter in Chicago this year, and enjoy easter egg hunts, and other fun Easter activities in Chitown. Lincoln Park Zoo is throwing an Easter extravaganza on Saturday, April 19th.
Things to Do in Chicago in April 2014
My pick for the existing team with the largest Jewish fanbase (including Jewcy editor Jason Diamond): They edge out the Jets because Chitown is more of a football place, and there isn't some second team to share with.
Who Is Our New NFL Team?
Suddenly, this woman, whose name aptly happens to be Fox, is in a firefight with Cross (Thomas Kretschmann), the man who killed dear old dad--a duel that continues in insanely speeding vehicles on the Chitown streets.
Bullet-time action
Geoff Dougherty is editor of ChiTown Daily News, a nonprofit online newspaper covering Chicago.
Picking up where newspapers leave off: a former investigative journalist launched an online local news Web site in Chicago
The Wikipedia entry also lists these nicknames: "Beirut by the Lake," "Chicago Works Together," "Chicagoland," "Chitown," "The Chi," "City by the Lake," "City of the Century," "Garden City," "My Kind of Town," "Paris on the Prairie," "Sweet Home" and "That Toddling Town."
Windy city
We talk and write a lot about the country's heartland, how rock `n'roll seems to travel up and down the Mississippi River from N'Awlins to ChiTown getting pricked, jabbed, poked, prodded into its latest incarnations.
Carousel corner: Heartland Bands, Part 1. (The Music)
Xavier University in Chicago, where he teaches a variety of courses, including "Media and Sport." As a nonnative of Chicago, he can enjoy the best of a Chitown summer-the Cubs and the White Sox.
Baseball and television origins: The case of the Cubs
Chitown disc jockey Tom Joyner hosts a syndicated show (Monday-Saturday, 6-10 a.m.) on WWKS-FM 101.3.
St. Thomas' secret
$405,000; 1206 Byrne Blvd, Vernon Hills, 60061; Sold on June 3, 2019, by Chitown Millco VH Multifamily to Yong Yang and Eileen Yang.
Antioch Barrington Buffalo Grove Deerfield Fox Lake Grayslake Gurnee Hainesville Hawthorn Woods Highland Park Ingleside Island Lake Lake Bluff Lake Forest Lake Villa Lake Zurich Lakemoor Libertyville Lincolnshire Lindenhurst Long Grove Mundelein Round Lake Round Lake Beach Round Lake Park Vernon Hills Volo Wauconda Waukegan Zion
The Oprah Winfrey-endorsed musical has already pre-sold over $7 million worth of tix, and may establish a sit-down run in Chitown the way "Wicked" and "25th Annual Putham County Spelling Bee" have.
Chi helmers move onto world stage: directors stay local but think global
Following Florida's Game 5 victory, there was a sense of uneasy confidence--if there is such a thing--among the Chitown faithful.
Cry the beloved Cubbie
African Americans have thrived in Chitown, as it is affectionately known to locals, ever since a black man, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, founded a trading post in 1782.
Doing business in Chicago? After the meetings, nix the hotel and take in The Windy City