Chicagoesque

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Chicago +‎ -esque

Adjective[edit]

Chicagoesque (comparative more Chicagoesque, superlative most Chicagoesque)

  1. Reminiscent of the city of Chicago, Illinois.
    • 2013, Erica Hannickel, Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 126:
      The crucial point that comes to light with the long gestation of the viticultural trade in Ohio is that the mid-century frontier was not a place of incremental development, nor was it in all places a Chicagoesque explosion of urbanization.