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What does the word Chicago mean and what language does it come from?
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
It has a Native American origin and in the Miami-Illinois language mean wild onion or wild garlic.
Chicago is most likely an Indian name, since that area was once settled by the Native Americans. But I also heard that it may be a French name. Indian is your best bet
It is the French Translatiion of the Native American word for wild onion in the Miami-Illinois language.
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoThe name Chicago is a French_languageadaptation of the Native American Miami-Illinois_languageword "shikaakwa", meaning "wild onion".
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoIt is a Native American woord meaning wld onion.
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