How Does Your Chicago Go, Is It Awe or Ah?

How does that old "Chicago" really go?
When I was growing up,
and was just a young pup
(which I admit must've been long ago).

On meeting someone new (this might sound dumb)
You might just ask them "where you from?"
Folks named places using the state and the city,
But in some larger than life places they just named the City.

One of those was Chicago--Whitman's city--  
"City of the Big Shoulders,"
Whose fire still smolders.
Whitman spoke to those who sneered at his city
In a way he told them Chicago wanted no pity.

Was a rough place then and still is to this day,
in the midst of it Ness and Capone made their  play...
But back to Chicago that old Indian name
Yes, Native American, but Indian just the same.

Those proud like Whitman had to be
Pronounced it with pride and a sense of awe
That's why It's still "ChicAWgo" to folks like me,
not like they pronounce it on HGTV.

No ChicAHgo for me like those modern day wonders
claiming they're from my city on that show "House Hunters" 
Not "ah" like the start of some thing odd, 
but "awe" as you walk where giants once trod.