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Hi Bob,

I'm starting this new blog for my new website, EarliestChicagoMaps.com.  I'm kicking it off with open emails to you and Carl Masthay, author of the Indian-to-French dictionary.

In consideration of you being the President of the Chicago Map Society, and the author of the lavishly appointed Chicago in Maps, if you would be so kind -- please cast some light on this generally murky area with your, and/or, the CMS's, mature thinking, about:

1. What is the conclusion, yours and/or that of the Chicago Map Society, on the etymology/origin of the Chicago-word?

2. What is the first map with the Chicago word on it?

Regards, 

Carl