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Type Settlement
Usage English

Meaning & History

Name of a city in Illinois, from town founded in 1833, named from a Canadian French form of Algonquian sheka:ko:heki "place of the wild onion," or Ojibwa shika:konk "at the skunk place".
Added 8/26/2014 by Fanny
Edited 3/1/2017 by Mike C