Chicago
[shi-kah-goh, -kaw-]
- JudyJudy Cohen, born 1939, U.S. artist, author, and educator.
- a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: second largest city in the U.S.
- a river formed in Chicago that flows through downtown and, as engineered, to the Des Plaines River: part of the Illinois Waterway.
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Contemporary Examples
Kulash moved out to Chicago to be with them and OK Go was officially born.
For OK Go, the four-piece band from Chicago, mainstream success started with eight treadmills and a choreographed dance routine.
Then the two hopped in a car and “drove around Chicago like lunatics,” Wald remembered.
Because when I did Chicago I had to make changes, make cuts from the original musical, and I heard nothing!
Here are just a few of the most egregious uses of lethal force by Chicago police.
Chicago’s Cops Don’t Even Get Investigated for Shooting People in the BackJustin Glawe
December 5, 2014
Historical Examples
And, for the unaesthetic but effective Attila, an able fashioner of pork products from Chicago.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Unlike Mlle. Higbee, she has not the father from Chicago nor elsewhere.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Sure enough—they were in Chicago and had dinner with us on their way out.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
I dined with one last night, a sugar-cured ham magnate from Chicago.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Chicago Red grinned with cheerful acceptance of the issue in such an encounter.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Chicago
- a port in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: the third largest city in the US; it is a major railway and air traffic centre. Pop: 2 869 121 (2003 est)
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Word Origin and History for chicago
Chicago
n.
town founded in 1833, named from a Canadian French form of an Algonquian word, either Fox /sheka:ko:heki "place of the wild onion," or Ojibwa shika:konk "at the skunk place" (sometimes rendered "place of the bad smell"). The Ojibwa "skunk" word is distantly related to the New England Algonquian word that yielded Modern English skunk (n.). Related: Chicagoan.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Chicago
Largest city in Illinois; located on Lake Michigan.
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Originally called the “Windy City” because the city bragged about the 1893 World Expo that was held there. The term has since come to refer to the strong northern winds that blow off the lake in the winter.
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For many years the second largest city in the United States, before being displaced by Los Angeles, and therefore referred to as the “Second City.”
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During the time of Prohibition, Chicago was controlled by gangsters, Al Capone being the most notorious. Gangster warfare continued long after this particularly violent period.
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Carl Sandburg, in his poem “Chicago,” called the city the “Hog Butcher for the World” because of Chicago's heavy involvement in the meatpacking industry.
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Chicago's downtown is referred to as the “Loop” because it is enclosed by elevated railways, called the “El.”
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