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Cahokia – refers to the Cahokia people whose village was located nearby Cahokia Township; Chautauqua; Chebanse – "Chebanse" derives from zhishibéns, meaning "the little duck" in the Potawatomi language Chebanse Township; Chenoa; Chicago – for the Miami-Illinois word Shikaakwa, wild leek. City of Chicago Heights; Village of Chicago Ridge ...
Brule County - from the Sičangu or Brule from French meaning “burnt” due to the name ‘Sičangu’ meaning burnt thighs in Lakota. Minnehaha County – from Dakota minnehaha, meaning "waterfall". Oglala Lakota County – Lakota for "to scatter one's own". [137] Yankton County – corruption of Sioux Ihanktonwan, meaning "the end village ...
Chicago (A to Z) Chi-Town [15] Chiraq [16] City in a Garden (literal translation of city motto, Urbs in horto) [17] The City of the Big Shoulders [18] (from Chicago, a Carl Sandburg poem) The City That Works (by Mayor Daley, for example [19]) Mud City [20] The Second City [18] The White City (referencing the World's Columbian Exposition ...
Chicago Heights lies on the high land of the Tinley Moraine, with the higher and older Valparaiso Moraine lying just to the south of the city.. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Chicago Heights has a total area of 10.30 square miles (26.68 km 2), of which 10.28 square miles (26.63 km 2) (or 99.87%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) (or 0.13%) is water.
Little Italy, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The current boundaries of Little Italy are Ashland Avenue on the west and Interstate 90/94 on the east, the Eisenhower Expressway on the north and Roosevelt to the south.
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A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albín Polášek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blaník Mountain. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water".
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