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About Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent settler of what would become Chicago, Illinois, United States and is recognized as the city's founder. The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is memorialized as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court.
Everything about Jean Baptiste Point du Sable →- Occupation
- merchant, pioneer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Born
- 1745
- Died
- August 28, 1818