Beantown. refers to the regional dish of Boston baked beans. In colonial days, a favorite Boston food was beans slow-baked in molasses. Titletown.

Is Chicago called Beantown?

"Pretty Little Liars" star Shay Mitchell said she will only be in Chicago for 30 hours, yet she has already coined a new nickname for the city. Mitchell, 29, keeps referring to Chicago as "Bean Town" on her social media because of the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park.

Why does Boston have the nickname Beantown?

Puritans took to the beans, the slave trade brought us molasses, and the most common tale is that sailors and merchants passing through the region's biggest city would enjoy the quick, cheap meal to such a degree that the Beantown nickname emerged through word of mouth.