Allowing for inevitable usage corruptions, this seems correct, because, until about thirty years ago, maps named the Skokie marsh as
Chewab Skokie, a probable derivation from
Kitchi-wap choku, the
Potawatomi term denoting
great marsh. Though undocumented, this explanation is credible, because it consists with the Skokie area's former physiography. Like-wise,
Skokie might derive from the same Algonquian roots as derives the word
Chicago —
zh'gak and
sh'kag, two, different voicings of the base words for
skunk and
wild leek in languages of this group. Moreover, in
Native Placenames of the United States (U. of Oklahoma Pr, 2004), William Bright lists Vogel's Potawatomi derivation first, but adds reference to the Ojibwa term
miishkooki (
marsh) recorded in the
Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary (Mouton, 1985), by Richard A. Rhodes.