Chicago

[ shi-kah-goh, -kaw- ]

noun

1. Judy Judy Cohen, born 1939, U.S. artist, author, and educator.
2. a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: second largest city in the U.S.
3. a river formed in Chicago that flows through downtown and, as engineered, to the Des Plaines River: part of the Illinois Waterway.

Chicago

/ ʃɪˈkɑːɡəʊ /

noun

1. a port in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: the third largest city in the US; it is a major railway and air traffic centre. Pop: 2 869 121 (2003 est)

Chicago

1. Largest city in Illinois ; located on Lake Michigan .

Notes

Carl Sandburg , in his poem “Chicago,” called the city the “Hog Butcher for the World” because of Chicago's heavy involvement in the meatpacking industry.

During the time of Prohibition , Chicago was controlled by gangsters, Al Capone being the most notorious. Gangster warfare continued long after this particularly violent period.

Originally called the “Windy City” because the city bragged about the 1893 World Expo that was held there. The term has since come to refer to the strong northern winds that blow off the lake in the winter.

Chicago's downtown is referred to as the “Loop” because it is enclosed by elevated railways, called the “El.”

For many years the second largest city in the United States, before being displaced by Los Angeles , and therefore referred to as the “Second City.”

Example Sentences

I think it’s frightening for Chicago and frightening for the Midwest, but also, it’s a bellwether for what the country might look like down the road, because so few publications are investing in this kind of coverage.

From Eater

I remember helping my mom with our backyard vines when I was a kid, watching seedlings sprout and grow tall in the humid Chicago sunshine, counting the fruits, weighing them in my small palms, waiting for them to turn bright red.

From Washington Post

In Chicago, the frequency of the crime more than doubled in 2020 to a rate of about four per day.

From Washington Post

Lenny Patrick was born in Chicago in 1913, one of four sons of Morris and Ester Patrick, Jewish immigrants from England who ended up in the Lawndale neighborhood.

From ProPublica

A spokeswoman for the Chicago health department, Erica Duncan, said vaccine supply was “very limited” and urged patience as the city works to make the shots more easily accessible.

From Washington Post

Kulash moved out to Chicago to be with them and OK Go was officially born.

From The Daily Beast

For OK Go, the four-piece band from Chicago, mainstream success started with eight treadmills and a choreographed dance routine.

From The Daily Beast

Then the two hopped in a car and “drove around Chicago like lunatics,” Wald remembered.

From The Daily Beast

Because when I did Chicago I had to make changes, make cuts from the original musical, and I heard nothing!

From The Daily Beast

Here are just a few of the most egregious uses of lethal force by Chicago police.

From The Daily Beast

He decided not to return home directly; he wanted to go somewhere, but did not care to stay in Chicago.

From Project Gutenberg

So with its completion, he wrapped it carefully, and sent it to a Chicago publisher, while he sighed with relief.

From Project Gutenberg

She was a woman, and in truth she would have married the man beside her had he have come hither when he had gone to Chicago.

From Project Gutenberg

The social ambitions of the Tippetts were so definitely quenched that the indignant millionaire threatened to return to Chicago.

From Project Gutenberg

It is said that the rancher visited Chicago several times following in an effort to persuade her to return.

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