The name Chicago comes from šikaakwa, a word in the Algonquian language that translates to "wild onion" because the river stank so bad then too
Anglicized Native American names are by far the best place names in the US. If we're going to go around randomly renaming things we should be switching to those.
Consider how much better Manhattan is as a name than New York, or how much better Kentucky is than West Virginia.