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TIL Chicago’s first permanent non-indigenous resident was a Haitian in the 1770’s. Who knew?

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/about/history.html
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@todayilearned oh wow this is so interesting #chicago #haiti

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Early Chicago
Chicago’s first permanent non-indigenous resident was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a free black man from Haiti whose father was a French sailor and whose mother was an African slave, he came here in the 1770s via the Mississippi River from New Orleans with his Native American wife, and their home stood at the mouth of the Chicago River. In 1803, the U.S. government built Fort Dearborn at what is now the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive (look for the bronze markers in the pavement). It was destroyed in 1812 following the Battle of Fort Dearborn, rebuilt in 1816, and permanently demolished in 1857.

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