Submitted Place Name Revision History

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3/1/2017, 3:31 PM Mike C
8/26/2014, 3:17 PM Fanny

Name Chicago
Type Settlement
Usage English
Edit Status Statusnot set

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