Onions, anyone?

Here’s a fact you may not know: The city of Chicago’s name comes from the Algonquin word “shikaakwa,” meaning “striped skunk” for the pungent onions found growing there! One way to keep from tearing up while chopping onions is to wear eye goggles to avoid the chemical syn-propanethial-S-oxide, which is released when an onion is cut.