The word “chicago” is derived from a Fox Indian term meaning “place of the skunk.”
If a restaurant served only kishke, menudo, and haggis, you could call it the International House of Intestines.
The Pillsbury Doughboy made his first appearance in 1965 in a commercial. Rudy Perz, a Chicago copywriter, created the icon when he envisioned an image of a doughboy when he popped open a can of refrigerated crescent dinner rolls.
American high school seniors rank 16th among 21 industrialized nations when it comes to achievement in science.
It is believed by some that the word “honeymoon” comes from an ancient tradition that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
This article appears in November 18 • 2005.