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The name “Chicago” is the French rendering of the Miami-Illinois name shikaakwa, meaning “wild leek.”[6][7][8] Etymologically, the sound shikaakwa in Miami-Illinois literally means ’striped skunk’, and was a reference to wild leek, or the smell of onions.[7] The name was initially applied to the river, but later came to denote [...]
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Chicago is the largest city by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Adjacent to Lake Michigan, the Chicago metropolitan area (commonly referred to as Chicagoland) has a population of over 9.7 million people in three U.S. states, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, and was [...]
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Las Vegas was named by Spaniards in the Antonio Armijo party, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas. In the 1800s, areas of the Las Vegas Valley contained artesian wells that supported extensive green areas or meadows (vegas [...]
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Las Vegas (Spanish: “The Meadows”) is the most populous city in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally renowned major resort city for the gaming industry, shopping, and entertainment. Las Vegas, billed as The Entertainment Capital of the World, is famous for the number of [...]
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Geography
New York covers 54,556 square miles (141,299 km²) and ranks as the 27th largest state by size.[4] The Great Appalachian Valley dominates eastern New York, while Lake Champlain is the chief northern feature of the valley, which also includes the Hudson River flowing southward to the Atlantic [...]