Unfortunately, today's #etymology really stinks. The city of 'Chicago' derives its name from a French rendering of the word 'shikaakwa,' which comes from the indigenous Miami-Illinois language, and likely referred to a variety of wild onion that grew in the area.

'Sheriff Miykhaela Shikaakwa rushed out innto the street, but the fire had already begun.' spoke that strangebook, mechanicalInterventions, inna language uncommonly straightforward. objkt.com/asset/KT1DgWte…

Soul Jazz Records #vinyl #nowplaying Hieroglyphic Being Shikaakwa on Sounds Of The Universe

Город Чикаго получил своё название от индейского слова shikaakwa, которое означает «черемша».

Happy Birthday Chicago and thank you Jean Baptiste Point du Sable! (founder)
Chicago, Chi-town , Shikaakwa, Miami, Checagou, Windy City. 🎂🎉🎈

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An African settled the US' 2nd biggest city today (June 6) in 1772 when Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable, likely born of enslaved African parents, built a log home at what the Native Americans called 'Shikaakwa” (meaning “place of the onion'), now known as Chicago.

Regular old colonizer. He didn’t “found” Chicago. Chicago (shikaakwa) is Algonquian for the wild ramps that are Indigenous to the area.

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Город Чикаго получил своё название за обширные поля дикого лука — рампа (Allium tricoccum), росшего в окрестностях. На языке коренных племен он назывался шикаква (Shikaakwa). Кстати, в английском языке название города произносится Шикаго (ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ).

#Chicago , Illinois is an old world Tatarian city #Chilaga

#Shikaakwa

While most Chicagoans know the city got its name from shikaakwa, an American Indian word for the pungent wild onions and leeks that grew in the area, few can tell you how Chicago’s many neighborhoods got their names. bit.ly/2I7Lvq6

Chicago toma su nombre de la gran cantidad de cebolla silvestre (shikaakwa en algonquino) que crecía en el lugar

RT Uncle David storm moving toward Chicago (Shikaakwa). wxch.nl/1KK6rkh

One last visit to the Englewood Range of the Shikaakwa Mountains before the city gives away the streets and the fences go up

Chicago,shikaakwa,Checagou, Chi Town. Today is your birthday, March 4th. Built on Native Land & Founded by Black Man. Here’s a thread that be ode to my city & ode to the place I’ve called home.

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He came all the way to America, some how made his way all the way to chicago through all that unknown terrain and different high tensions in a new land he knows nothing about to call it “shikaakwa” an American name. 🫠

But “We Wuz Americanz”

Por cierto, hace 200 años, la población originaria de Shikaakwa (Chicago), el pueblo Potawatomi, fue expulsado de sus tierras por la relativamente joven potencia colonial de eurodescendientes invasores, fanáticos y ladrones (EEUU).

Thank you Jean Baptiste Point du Sable! (founder) of
Chicago, Chi-town , Shikaakwa, Miami, Checagou, Windy City.

182nd Birthday Chicago! 🎂🎉🎈🎊

Шикаакуа “shikaakwa” гэдэг чинь уугуул Индианчуудын “Зэрлэг сонгино”гэсэн үг юм билээшд. Тэгээд л “Чикаго” болсон юм байна.