Skokie

[ skoh-kee ]

noun

1. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.

Example Sentences

Over the summer, drivers in Skokie, Ill., went public with plans to join the Teamsters, demanding Amazon recognize their union.

From Los Angeles Times

The idea of a Nazi gathering in Skokie, a suburb of Chicago, was like “being put back into the concentration camp,” Mr. Stern told a local television station at the time.

From New York Times

The possibility of the rally preoccupied Skokie for a year and led to a First Amendment confrontation between the village and the Chicago chapter of the National Socialist Party of America, a neo-Nazi group, which was defended by the American Civil Liberties Union.

From New York Times

Mr. Stern became an activist, inspired in part by his disagreement with Lawrence Montrose, his beloved rabbi at Skokie Central Congregation.

From New York Times

When a band of Nazis proposed to exercise their right to free speech by staging a rally in Skokie, Ill., in 1977, Ben Stern was incensed.

From New York Times