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==Etymology and nicknames==
{{Main|Nicknames of Chicago}}
{{See also|Windy City (nickname)|List of Chicago placename etymologies}}

The name ''Chicago'' is derived from a French rendering of the [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|indigenous]] [[Miami–Illinois language|Miami–Illinois]] name {{lang|mia|Šikaakonki}}, the locative form of the word {{lang|mia|šikaakwa}} which can mean both "[[skunk]]" and "ramps," a wild relative of [[onion]] and [[garlic]] known to botanists as ''[[Allium tricoccum]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Costa |first=David J. |title=The Miami-Illinois Language |year=2003 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln, NE |isbn=9780803215146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qCyE8fR12HsC }}</ref> The first known reference to the site of the city of Chicago as "{{lang|fr|Checagou}}" was by [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle|Robert de&nbsp;LaSalle]] around 1679 in a memoir.<ref>{{cite book |last=Quaife |first=Milo M. |title=Checagou: From Indian Wigwam to Modern City, 1673–1835 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.151734 |year=1933 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago, IL |oclc=1865758}}</ref> [[Henri Joutel]], in his journal of 1688, noted that the eponymous wild "garlic" grew profusely in the area.<ref name="Swenson, John F. 235–248">{{Cite journal |author=Swenson, John F. |title=Chicagoua/Chicago: The origin, meaning, and etymology of a place name |journal=Illinois Historical Journal |volume=84 |issue=4 |date=Winter 1991 |pages=235–248 |issn=0748-8149 |oclc=25174749}}</ref> According to his diary of late September 1687:

{{Blockquote|... when we arrived at the said place called "Chicagou" which, according to what we were able to learn of it, has taken this name because of the quantity of garlic which grows in the forests in this region.<ref name="Swenson, John F. 235–248" />}}

The city has had [[Nicknames of Chicago|several nicknames]] throughout its history, such as the [[Windy City (nickname)|Windy City]], Chi-Town, Second City, and City of the Big Shoulders.<ref name="Liebling's Second City">{{harvc|first=Sarah S. |last=Marcus |c=Chicago's Twentieth-Century Cultural Exports |in3=Reiff |in2=Keating |in1=Grossman |year= 2004 |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410156.html |access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref>