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Where was the name of Chicago from?

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∙ 14y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

"Chicago" is derived from a Indian word meaning "place of the wild onions," according to a historian at Hull House, home of Jane Addams. The onions were very common near the Chicago River.

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