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4. Chicago
Third largest city in America, located in Northeast Illinois on Lake Michigan
Where does the word 'Chicago' come from? (choose the one best answer)
A. Contraction of the French words char + cargais, meaning literally cart + cargo.
B. Named after Polish immigrant shipbuilder Tadeusz Shkago, who arrived in 1673.
C. From the Potawatomi Indian words she-kag-ong, (place where the onions grow).
D. Song lyric about how the French used chicanery long ago (to defeat the Indians).
135 years after Mrs. O'Leary's cow burned the town down to the ground, over 8 million Chicagoans inhabit the 230 square milles that comprise the metropolitan area.
One of the country's leading financial, industrial and transportation centers, Chicago connects the St. Lawrence Seaway with the Mississippi Valley.
The US Army built Fort Dearborn here in 1803, on marshlands where the Potawatomi Indians previously gathered edible bulbs -- so C is correct.
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Third largest city in America, located in Northeast Illinois on Lake Michigan
Where does the word 'Chicago' come from? (choose the one best answer)
A. Contraction of the French words char + cargais, meaning literally cart + cargo.
B. Named after Polish immigrant shipbuilder Tadeusz Shkago, who arrived in 1673.
C. From the Potawatomi Indian words she-kag-ong, (place where the onions grow).
D. Song lyric about how the French used chicanery long ago (to defeat the Indians).
135 years after Mrs. O'Leary's cow burned the town down to the ground, over 8 million Chicagoans inhabit the 230 square milles that comprise the metropolitan area.
One of the country's leading financial, industrial and transportation centers, Chicago connects the St. Lawrence Seaway with the Mississippi Valley.
The US Army built Fort Dearborn here in 1803, on marshlands where the Potawatomi Indians previously gathered edible bulbs -- so C is correct.
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