If a Chicagoan wanted to take a lakeside trip, this famous road's acronym would be their best bet.
LSD (Lake Shore Drive)
Don't look up! This event made the dinos go the way of the dinos.
Meteor impact/Chicxulub impact event
Any more than a couple of crows has this bone-chilling name.
A murder of crows
This feline fiend just can't seem to get his weekly Lasagna.
Garfield
Are you a charmer? This charismatic quality would make or break a night on the town.
Rizz
Intended to embody Progressive Era values of charity to immigrants and the poor, this building on UIC's campus was established by Ellen Gates Starr and her more famous collaborator.
Hull House
This odious orb is featured on nearly all GAPS meeting posters as an Easter egg.
The demon core.
Ouch! Peppers have this chemical that makes you feel the burn.
Capsaicin
This perky pipsqueak sacrificed an arm and a leg to try to get his family back together.
Edward Elric
Alpha, Beta, Omega? No way! This category of males is beyond the normal hierarchy and seeks to go his own way.
Sigma
The Museum of Science and Industry and this other Chicago museum represent the remnants of the Columbian Exposition's White City.
The Field Museum
This fortunate fellow's personality fell flat after his head was pierced by a metal rod, leading medical researchers to uncover the connection of brain regions and temperament.
Phineas Gage
Conditional on good priors, this probability theorem is applied widely, from uses in Montecarlo simulations to analyzing explosions.
Bayesian statistics
This much-memed mammalia rolled into the entertainment sphere in 1991 and quickly zoomed to an international franchise.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Skibidi
The L
This sweet metal produces very unsavory effects, notably symptoms similar to tuberculosis, causing respiratory failure.
Beryllium
This looped mathematical object is best known for its elegant butterfly-shaped model derived by Lorentz.
The strange attractor
This capricious comic is well known for his musical antics and use of stimulants.
Rockso the Rock and Roll Clown
Gen Alpha let the rest of us know that online, zombies aren't the ones suffering from exhaustion, distraction, and tuning out of reality.
Brain rot
This revolutionary Polish general holds a special place in Chicago's culture, being the only city in the US to have a city holiday in his name.
Casimir Pulaski
The title of William Jennings Bryan's bombastic 1892 Democratic National Convention speech in Chicago provided a silver lining to beleaguered Republicans in the upcoming election.
The Cross of Gold
Feline friends beware! This parasite has been suggested to proceed to the much-maligned crazy cat lady.
Toxoplasmosis
This titular precocious preteen and her pal Sluggo rough it through life on the pages of Ernie Bushmiller.
Nancy
Categorically flooring your competition, this word gained its meaning as a descriptor of someone's relative piety before being applied as a general descriptor of comparative excellence.
Mog