Queen City of the Lakes (Chicago nickname)

Buffalo, New York, located on Lake Erie, has been called the “Queen City of the (Great) Lakes” since at least 1835. Chicago, Illinois, located on Lake Michigan, would also use the “Queen City of the Lake” nickname in the 1850s.
 
“Chicago is destined to be, at no distant day, the Queen City of the Lakes” was printed in the North-Western Gazette (Galena, IL) on April 18, 1845. “Queen of the Lakes” was printed in the Salem (IL) Weekly Advocate on January 26, 1854. “Chicago, the City of the Lakes” was printed in the Daily Davenport Gazette (Davenport, IA) on December 4, 1854. “Queen City of the Lakes” was printed in the Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield, IL) on January 19, 1855. “The plain fact is that Chicago is the Queen City of the Lakes” was printed in The Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON) on June 6, 1857.
 
   
Wikipedia: Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the third-most populous city in the United States with a population of 2.74 million at the 2020 census, while the Chicago metropolitan area has 9.41 million residents and is the third-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Chicago is the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States.
 
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18 April 1845, North-Western Gazette (Galena, IL), pg. 2, col. 1:
Chicago is destined to be, at no distant day, the Queen City of the Lakes.
 
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19 November 1854, Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield, IL), “Illinois Rail Roads,” pg. 2, col. 1:
Chicago under this system must become the Queen of the Lakes,  and Cairo, the Great City of the Mississippi Valley.
 
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26 January 1854, Salem (IL) Weekly Advocate, pg. 2, col. 4:
We, in Southern Illinois, are rejoiced at the rapid and unparalleled growth of your beautiful city—the Queen of the Lakes—and have believed there was a strong sympathy between it and Cairo, to become stronger and warmer on the completion of the Central Railroad.
(Letter by Sidney Breese to the Chicago Tribune.—ed.)
 
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20 February 1854, Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield, IL), “Legislative Visit to Chicago,” pg. 2, col. 1:
Hon. J. GILLESPIE referred to the condition of Chicago as evidence of what the arrangements of Providence, aided by enterprise can accomplish. He predicted that before many years Chicago would be Queen City of the West, as she was now Queen of the Lakes.
 
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4 March 1854, Alton (IL) Daily Morning Courier, “The Legislature at St. Louis,” pg. 2, col. 1:
Chicago—The daughter of Commerce and Queen of the Lakes.
 
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4 December 1854, Daily Davenport Gazette (Davenport, IA), pg. 2, col. 1:
There are now eighteen railroads tributary to the growth and prosperity of Chicago, the City of the Lakes. 
 
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19 January 1855, Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield, IL), “Next State Fair,” pg. 2, col. 1:
As a mere money operation, the citizens of Chicago should not hesitate a moment in complying with the requirements of the State Agricultural Society, and as a means of extending the knowledge and importance of the Queen City of the Lakes, in the nation, the measure proposed can have no equal.
 
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31 January 1855, Weekly Belleville Advocate (Belleville, IL), “Next State Fair,” pg. 2, col. 2:
As a mere money operation, the citizens of Chicago should not hesitate a moment in complying with the requirements of the State Agricultural Society, and as a means of extending the knowledge and importance of the Queen City of the Lakes, in the nation, the measure proposed can have no equal.
 
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10 July 1855, The Sun (Baltimore, MD), pg. 4, col. 2:
We are also connected to Terre-Haute and Alton, and the Illinois Central railways with Springfield, the capitol of Illinois, and Chicago, the city of the lakes. 
 
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6 June 1857, The Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), “Letters from the Editor,” pg. 6, col. 2:
The plain fact is that Chicago is the Queen City of the Lakes, and I cannot pen down a hundreth part of what I think about it.
 
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8 June 1857, Franklin Democrat (Greenfield, MA), pg. 2, col. 7:
“LONG JOHN”—A correspondent of the Yarmouth Register, writing from Chicago, tells the following humorous story in regard to the present Mayor of the Queen City of the Lakes: ...
 
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20 January 1858, The Illinois State Journal (Springfield, IL), pg. 2, col. 2:
CHICAGO.—Every Illinoisan should be proud of the Queen City of the Lakes.
 
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28 February 1859, Chicago (IL) Daily Press and Tribune, “Grand Celebration,” pg. 2, col. 3:
... to Chicago, Queen City of the Lakes, ...
 
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23 April 1860, The Daily Gate City (Koekuk, IA), pg. 4, col. 6:
Edwards’ Western Almanac for 1860.
(...)
CHICAGO—The Queen City of the Lakes—Her Progress and Prospects.