It varies by generation and part of town.

And you have given the eternally correct, graven in stone pronunciation of America's Greatest City.
I only moved to Arizona because I felt Chicago Winters™had built my character sufficiently.

We always pronounced it shi (soft i) CAW go

We're near Jina.

Today's wind chill is zero at the moment.

I know there are people there who call it Shi-CAH-guh, but that pronunciation really grated on my parents.

How does Obama pronounce it? We should let him be the tie-breaker.

Shuh-CAW-go was his pronunciation, my mother's after they married, and therefore mine, as well. I was born in the city, but grew up in western upstate NY first Buffali, then Rochester). Now live the the far northwest suburbs of Chicago.

I will have to listen more closely to how others around here pronounce it.

Just like in the song.

But the Blues Brothers will always be my fav:

I enjoyed the crap out of living in Chicago in my early 20s. The 5 am bars on the weekends in particular.

If it's the dumb joke that I've heard.

Yeah, I've heard that joke before.

After all, it does depend, in part, on where you are from (if you came to Chicago from elsewhere) and it depends on where you live in Chicago.

The real test here to see who is and who is not a true Chicagoian would be this: How do you pronounce "Loyola?"

Loy--OH--lah ???

There are other Loyolas (Loyola Marymount, Loyola New Orleans), by the way, and they pronounce it the same.

and the way that I usually pronounce Loyola...but many (if not most Chicagoians) pronunce it another way...and I've even heard train conductors pronounce "Loyola" this other way for over 20 years.

know how to pronounce the name of their own school?

Or is this another Chicago joke?

Lived a few blocks from the school for almost a decade

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during my dad's era. I've never heard any friends or relatives call it that, and I haven't lived there in decades.

If I'm ever back there I'll have to ask around.

In fact, I'm sure of it.

I wonder if it's meant as a slam or if it's just a sloppy speech pattern.

It's all coming back to me.

We would more likely be referring to Loyola Hospital in Maywood than the school. Even though that is the School's hospital. I'm sure of it.

It's simply the way that many people in Chicago pronounce it...I think that it's an education thing since I've heard black, white, and Latino pronounce it that way.

Frunchroom

My partner still howls about that one.

He went to visit a coworker who live on the south side and she kept talking about the frunchroom. He was like what the fuck are you talking about. Lol.

I mean, I have some true howlers, being a true child of the Midwest (with grandparents from the South) but I've never heard of that.

...to pronounce the Second City's name...and every single one of them is right.