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Old 04-07-2012, 10:50 AM
 
Location: illinois
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Old 04-07-2012, 09:10 PM
 
Location: Not where you ever lived
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Boystown, Bath and Bardolph come to mind.
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Old 04-07-2012, 11:30 PM
 
Location: Hawaii-Puna District
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Kickapoo. Pronounced - kick - a - poo
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Old 04-08-2012, 12:28 AM
 
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Plano and Sandwich are next to each other. They used to say that they'd build a town in between called Baloney. You'd have Planoldbaloneysandwich.
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Old 04-08-2012, 07:29 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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Paw Paw, Kaskaskia, Kankakee all come to mind
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Old 04-08-2012, 08:01 AM
 
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Assumption, always makes me think of the movie "Children of the Corn".
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Old 04-08-2012, 08:28 AM
 
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Nope. The Kickapoo ("Stands here and there") is an Indian subgroup of the Wabash Confederacy, related to the Algonquian Nation (Canada) and to the Illiniwek.

There is a Kickapoo State Park in Edwards, Illinois, and a Kickapoo Township in Peoria County, Illinois. However, there is no town, city or village named Kickapoo in the State of Illinois.

You can find a list of every name of every recognized Illinois City, Town and Village here: //www.city-data.com/city/Illinois.html




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Kickapoo. Pronounced - kick - a - poo
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Old 04-08-2012, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Hawaii-Puna District
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Nope. The Kickapoo ("Stands here and there") is an Indian subgroup of the Wabash Confederacy, related to the Algonquian Nation (Canada) and to the Illiniwek.

There is a Kickapoo State Park in Edwards, Illinois, and a Kickapoo Township in Peoria County, Illinois. However, there is no town, city or village named Kickapoo in the State of Illinois.

You can find a list of every name of every recognized Illinois City, Town and Village here: //www.city-data.com/city/Illinois.html
The people that live in the unincorporated village call it Kickapoo and the road sign outside of town says the same.
There are about a dozen streets, 100 homes or so, several restaurants, several very popular little league ball fields, churches, a fire station...

It is located on US Rt 150 and Kickapoo Edwards Road, just a few miles outside the city limits of Peoria.
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Old 04-08-2012, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Old 04-10-2012, 07:38 AM
 
Location: The Hall of Justice
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As a transplant to the area, I've been exposed to a lot of places named for or by American Indians. Waukegan, Kankakee, Kewanee, Algonquin. I wouldn't call them strange, just unfamiliar to me. I've also noticed the tendency in the Midwest to arbitrarily pronounce something in a different way, like Des Plaines. That's the only one I can think of at the moment, but I know there are a handful of place names that have odd pronunciation.
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