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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder.
Oct 21, 2023 · This is the journey and struggles of Haitian immigrant Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable, whose entrepreneurial spirit led him to become a Black man of enormous wealth in an era in America when that was nearly impossible.
Jul 10, 2023 · Sometime in the mid-1780s, Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable, a Black man from Saint-Domingue, and his Potawatomi wife, Kitihawa, settled with their family on a swampy site near Lake Michigan called Eschecagou, “land of the wild onions.”
Feb 3, 2022 · Before the Chicago City Council voted to rename Lake Shore Drive in June 2021, recognition for Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable was sprinkled throughout the city: a high school, an outdoor statuary bust, and the DuSable Museum of African American History located on Chicago's South Side.
Jun 29, 2021 · Last week, the City Council voted to rename Lake Shore Drive to Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive, in honor of the Black trader cited as the first non-Indigenous settler of the...
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Jan 2, 2022 · The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is identified as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court. Point du Sable was of African descent but little else is known of his life prior to the 1770s.
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Feb 24, 2024 · Today Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable is celebrated as the first non-native permanent resident of what is now Chicago, but history professor Courtney P. Joseph told her audience at the Evanston Public Library on Wednesday that written documentation is scarce.
