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Chicago – derived from native American term “chicagoua” – meaning - ‘the place of the smelly onion’
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Native Tribes No tribe lived here year round
Miami – primary tribe in area during 17th Century Potawatomi – later replaced Miami Illinois and Ojibwa groups knew of the area Mud Lake – Swampy area connecting Des Plaines River and Chicago River until 1900 when it was filled in by Chicagoans
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Early French Explorers
Louis Jolliet (French trader and explorer) and Jacques Marquette (Jesuit Missionary) 1673 – Searched for passage to Pacific Ocean Traveled most of Mississippi River and on return, stopped on SW edge of Lake Michigan First Europeans to Chicago
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“The first white man to settle in Chicago was black”
Jean Baptiste Point de Sable Part African and French Born in Haiti 1770s – 1780s – First established Chicago resident – fur trader Lived on north bank of Chicago river with family – Pottawatomie wife and two children
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Chicago 1833 – Incorporated as village
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Early Chicago Key Dates
1803 – Fort Dearborn established 1803 – John Kinzie “Father of Chicago” arrives 1836 – Native Americans defeated by Americans in Blackhawk War 1833 – Chicago incorporated as a village (350 residents) 1837 – Chicago incorporates as a city (4,000 residents)
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Late 1700s
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Approximately 1833 – population 350
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City incorporated – March 4, 1837
No maps exist, however population reached 5,000 by 1837
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1868 – One year prior to the building of Saint Ignatius College
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