Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1879 — How Chicago Got Its Name. [ARTICLE]

How Chicago Got Its Name.

John Jenkins, of Momence, 111., whose father was the first white man that raised a crop of corn in Cass county, Mich., and who avers that when a boy he was as familiar with the Indian language as with his own, says that the usual definition given to the word “Chicago” is entirely erroneous. Fortyfive years ago the place was called Tuck Chicago, “ tuck” meaning wood or timber, and Chicago signifying gone, absent, without. Tuck Chicago, therefore, literally meant “ timber goqe,”—-iouis-ville Courier-Jowrrwl, “