Chicago

From French Chécagou, a transcription of Miami šikaakwa (“wild leek, ramp, Allium tricoccum; striped skunk”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa; compare Ojibwe zhigaagawanzh / zhigaagawinzh (“onion, leek”), zhigaag (“striped skunk”). Doublet of skunk.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɪˈkɑː.ɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃɪˈkɑ.ɡoʊ/, /ʃɪˈkɔ.ɡoʊ/^[1]
  • (Chicago) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈkɑː.ɡo/^[2][3], /ʃəˈkɔː.ɡo/^[4]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ʃɪˈkä(ː).ɡo]

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Chicago

1. A large city, the county seat of Cook County, in northeastern Illinois, United States, located on Lake Michigan.

   Synonyms: (slang) Chi, (US, slang) Chiraq, (informal) Chi-Town, (US, informal) Hogtown, (vulgar, derogatory) Shitcago, (informal) The Windy City

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, page 3:

     I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

   • 2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 7, Norm Macdonald (actor):

     Chicago is now #1 in murder and sausages. That sounds like my kind of town!

   • 2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN‎^[5]:

     Homan, who was on the ground in Chicago, maintained it was a “criminal operation.” Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was also in Chicago on Sunday to observe immigration enforcement operations.

• In Chicago-related contexts, the word Chicago is often used to refer to certain attributes conventionally associated with the city, such as being tough and hearty, bustling and diverse, or ruthless and corrupt.^[5][6][7]

• Chicago on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fort Chécagou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ʃiˈka.ɣu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ʃiˈka.ɣo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [t͡ʃiˈka.ɣo]

Chicago m

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɪkaːɡo]
• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɪkaːɡo]
• Rhymes: -aːɡo

Chicago n (relational adjective chicagský)

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

• “Chicago”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Chicago”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English Chicago.

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃiˈkaː.ɡoː/, /ˌtʃiˈkaː.ɡoː/
• Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go

Chicago n

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.ka.ɡo/

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Chicago f

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

• Chikago

• IPA^(key): /ʃiˈkaːɡo/, (by hypercorrection also) /tʃiˈkaːɡo/

Chicago n (proper noun, genitive Chicagos or (optionally with an article) Chicago)

1. Chicago (a major city in Illinois, United States)

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃikaːɡoː]
• Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go
• Rhymes: -ɡoː

Chicago

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

• chicagói

Borrowed from English, from Miami šikaakwa (“wild leek, ramp; striped skunk”), via the French transcription Chécagou.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.ɡo/, (careful style) ^*/ʃiˈka.ɡo/^[1]
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: Chi‧cà‧go

Chicago f

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois)

Borrowed from English Chicago.

• Rhymes: -aɡu
• Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go

Chicago ?

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃikaːɡɔ]

Chicago n (genitive singular Chicaga, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Chicago (a city in Illinois, United States)

• “Chicago”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈkaɡo/ [t͡ʃiˈka.ɣ̞o]
• IPA^(key): (less common, imitating English pronunciation) /ʃiˈkaɡo/ [ʃiˈka.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Syllabification: Chi‧ca‧go

Chicago ?

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

Chicago

1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

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