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Re: A trip to see Chicagoland Sears houses

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Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #45
ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and nobody says "Chicagoland" in conversation. It's only used by newscasters, and car dealers in their commercials. Even dumber is "Chicagoland area." My copyediting professor (who worked at the Chicago Tribune) loved to mock this dumb term, pointing out that nobody says "Detroitland" or "New Yorkland" or "Indianapolisland."

People say "Tristate Area" and "Metro Detroit"? Don't necessarily need to tack "land" on there but there are colloquial terms for these large metro areas.

There seem to be lots of "tri-state" areas, and "metro Detroit" is probably the least dumb way to include an entire metropolitan area. I wouldn't even call it colloquial.

Re: A trip to see Chicagoland Sears houses

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JKCalhoun wrote: post #56
ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and nobody says "Chicagoland" in conversation. It's only used by newscasters, and car dealers in their commercials. Even dumber is "Chicagoland area." My copyediting professor (who worked at the Chicago Tribune) loved to mock this dumb term, pointing out that nobody says "Detroitland" or "New Yorkland" or "Indianapolisland."

"Frisco" anyone? No?

"The OC" anyone?

Also no.

Re: A trip to see Chicagoland Sears houses

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Post by nashashmi »

doomlaser wrote: post #10

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Re: A trip to see Chicagoland Sears houses

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Post by eesmith »

lqet wrote: post #37
codelikeawolf wrote: post #20

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and I didn't realize how weird the term "Chicagoland" was until I started traveling around a bit. I'm not aware of any other city in the world that tacks "land" onto the name to describe the surrounding area. Do this with any other city and it sounds like a weird amusement park: Dallasland, Indianapolisland, Seattleland, etc.

Switzerland has a whole Canton named after the surrounding area of Basel: Basel-Landschaft, which is often called "Baselland" [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel-Landschaft

Münsterland - https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnsterland#Q7920 - with Münster as the largest city.

Re: A trip to see Chicagoland Sears houses

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Post by harywilke »

prmoustache wrote: post #29
codelikeawolf wrote: post #20

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and I didn't realize how weird the term "Chicagoland" was until I started traveling around a bit. I'm not aware of any other city in the world that tacks "land" onto the name to describe the surrounding area. Do this with any other city and it sounds like a weird amusement park: Dallasland, Indianapolisland, Seattleland, etc.

Well hasn't the term chicagoland invented to sound like the Legoland theme park in the first place? I guess if another large city name was terminating with -ney its metropolitan area would also be called in a similar way.

Etymology. Chicago +‎ land. Generally thought to have been popularized by Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, first using it on page 1 of the July 27, 1926 issue, although it may have been coined much earlier.

Re: A trip to see Chicagoland Sears houses

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Post by eesmith »

CalRobert wrote: post #33
codelikeawolf wrote: post #20

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and I didn't realize how weird the term "Chicagoland" was until I started traveling around a bit. I'm not aware of any other city in the world that tacks "land" onto the name to describe the surrounding area. Do this with any other city and it sounds like a weird amusement park: Dallasland, Indianapolisland, Seattleland, etc.

My stepmom from Torrance pretty commonly referred to LA as Lalaland in jest.

FWIW, it's not specific to her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_Land_(disambiguation) lists it as a nickname for LA, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/La-La_Land#English gives a 1958 citation in TV Guide, and it's the reason the 2016 movie "La La Land" got its name.

Re: A trip to see Chicagoland Sears houses

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Post by cafard »

codelikeawolf wrote: post #20

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and I didn't realize how weird the term "Chicagoland" was until I started traveling around a bit. I'm not aware of any other city in the world that tacks "land" onto the name to describe the surrounding area. Do this with any other city and it sounds like a weird amusement park: Dallasland, Indianapolisland, Seattleland, etc.

I first heard it from a co-worker, who found that it took less explaining than to say that he was Valparaiso, Indiana.
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