We got cable early in our little municipality inside of Houston in the mid 70s when I was 10 or so. WGN was part of the base package. The ads confused me so much. “How the heck is Chicago different from Chicagoland?”
100 years ago newsJuly 27, 1926: "Chicagoland" as a term for the Chicago metro area is coined in a headline that runs in the Chicago Tribune over the beginning of a series on the area's cultural treasures and tourist destinations. Publisher Robert McCormick will relentlessly plug the phrase for years.