Chicagoan

Variant of Chicago

Chicago definition

Chi·cago (s̸hə kä′gō, -kô′-)

city and port in NE Ill., on Lake Michigan: pop. 2,896,000

Etymology: < Fr < Algonquian, lit., place of the onion: from the wild onions growing there

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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