Chicago

Chi·ca·go  (sh-käg, -kô-)

The largest city of Illinois, in the northeast part of the state on Lake Michigan. It is a major port and the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center of the Middle West. It is also the third-largest U.S. city. Chicago was nearly destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1871. Population: 2,880,000.

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Chi·cago·an n.

Word History: People from Chicago ought to like onions. The name Chicago is first recorded in 1688 in a French document, where it appears as Chigagou, an Algonquian word meaning "onion field." In explanation of this name, the document states there that wild onion or garlic grew profusely in the area. The name of the field or meadow was first transferred to the river and then was given to the city in 1830.

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Noun	1.	Chicago - largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan Windy City Sears Tower - a skyscraper built in Chicago in 1974; 1454 feet tall University of Chicago - a university in Chicago, Illinois IL, Illinois, Land of Lincoln, Prairie State - a midwestern state in north-central United States
	2.	Chicago - a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card stops, Newmarket, boodle, Michigan card game, cards - a game played with playing cards