Chicago Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! AdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text==Etymology and nicknames== {{Main|Nicknames of Chicago}} {{See also|Windy City (nickname)|List of Chicago placename etymologies}} The name ''Chicago'' is derived from a French rendering of the [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|indigenous]] [[Miami-Illinois language|Miami-Illinois]] word {{lang|mia|shikaakwa}} for a wild relative of the [[onion]]; it is known to botanists as ''[[Allium tricoccum]]'' and known more commonly as "ramps". The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as "{{lang|fr|Checagou}}" was by [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle|Robert de LaSalle]] around 1679 in a memoir.<ref>{{cite book |last=Quaife |first=Milo M. |title=Checagou: From Indian Wigwam to Modern City, 1673–1835 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.151734 |year=1933 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago, IL |oclc=1865758}}</ref> [[Henri Joutel]], in his journal of 1688, noted that the eponymous wild "garlic" grew profusely in the area.<ref name="Swenson, John F. 235–248">{{Cite journal |author=Swenson, John F. |title=Chicagoua/Chicago: The origin, meaning, and etymology of a place name |journal=Illinois Historical Journal |volume=84 |issue=4 |date=Winter 1991 |pages=235–248 |issn=0748-8149 |oclc=25174749}}</ref> According to his diary of late September 1687: {{Blockquote|... when we arrived at the said place called "Chicagou" which, according to what we were able to learn of it, has taken this name because of the quantity of garlic which grows in the forests in this region.<ref name="Swenson, John F. 235–248" />}} The city has had [[Nicknames of Chicago|several nicknames]] throughout its history, such as the [[Windy City (nickname)|Windy City]], Chi-Town, Second City, and City of the Big Shoulders.<ref name="Liebling's Second City">{{harvc|first=Sarah S. |last=Marcus |c=Chicago's Twentieth-Century Cultural Exports |in3=Reiff |in2=Keating |in1=Grossman |year= 2004 |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410156.html |access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page