Excerpt from Rand, McNally Co; 'S; Pocket Guide to Chicago: With Maps and Index to Streets The Origin amid Meaning of the Word Chicago. - An erudite and painstaking correspondent of the Chicago T rz'hzme traces the word as the locative case of a Cree Indian word mean ing, primarily, at the place of the skunk derivatively, equaling strong, mighty, and great; and particularly, applied by the Indians to the present city, on the drowning, at some remote period, of an Indian chief of that name in the mouth of the present Chicago River. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.