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Chicago was a wonderful place for GI's on weekends in WWII. I didn't learn much about regional speech differences on my weekends there. But, to be mischievous, I read a book a few years ago in which a serious scholar said the name was derived from an Indian word meaning "place of skunks".
For the very young GI stood for "Government Issue" as though we were just pieces of goods.
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