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It is a French translation of the Native American Miami Illinois Indian word for wild onion.

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The motto of Chicago is Latin and reads Urbs in Horto. The English translation of the motto means City in a Garden.

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Chicago means " land of stinky onions" from a native American tribe. It is a really weird meaning for the famous Windy City!

Wild Onion in the Miami-Illinois language.

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