3. Chicago – derived from native American term “chicagoua” – meaning - ‘the place of the smelly onion’

4. 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

6. 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

8. “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

9. Chicago 1833 – Incorporated as village

10. 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)

11. Late 1700s

12. Approximately 1833 – population 350

13. City incorporated – March 4, 1837
No maps exist, however population reached 5,000 by 1837

14. 1868 – One year prior to the building of Saint Ignatius College