Almost any day in Illinois or southern Wisconsin will seem very windy to a North Carolinian.
I grew up in NW Illinois, and unless there's a tropical storm / hurricane coming thru, the wind in central NC is NOTHING compared to back home.
In NW Illinois, or in Urbana (U of I), if you didn't "do" in the wind, then you didn't "do". No one notices 20 mph winds back home. Here in central NC, expected 20 mph winds cause the release of "high wind warnings".
Ever notice there are almost no wind breaks at NC tennis courts, even the nice ones. Look at the courts you pass by up Illinois - southern Wisconsin way. Wind breaks / guards are a normal, though not universal, presence.
You probably got the idea by now.