Native Tribes
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Chicago – derived from native American term “chicagoua” – meaning - ‘the place of the smelly onion’
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
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
“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
Chicago 1833 – Incorporated as village
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)
Late 1700s
Approximately 1833 – population 350
City incorporated – March 4, 1837
No maps exist, however population reached 5,000 by 1837
1868 – One year prior to the building of Saint Ignatius College