Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is known as the founder or father of Chicago in the late 18th century. However it wasn't officially incorporated until 1837. Chicago is known as the United States ...

It’s grandstanding.” The mayor also invoked Chicago’s Black history, shouting out its Haitian founder, the explorer Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, and his Potawatomi wife before ending his ...

The mayor also invoked themes of Chicago’s Black history, immediately shouting out its Haitian founder, the explorer Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, and his Potawatomi wife, and ended by reciting ...

Budget Chair Jason Ervin (28th) noted Chicago was “founded by a Black man who is a fur trader” — Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. “I don’t think historically this makes a lot of sense ...

Brown has pointed out that Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the man recognized as Chicago's founder, was also a fur trader — which Ald. Jason Ervin (28th) also noted at the hearing Wednesday.

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, is recognized as a founding settler. “Chicago is and always has been a proud city of immigrants. Generations of new arrivals, including the descendants of the ...

The 1919 riots “didn’t seem to make it into the timeline alongside titanic stories about Fort Dearborn, Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable, the World’s Columbian Exposition, the 1968 riot ...

The video in the player above is from a previous report. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is known as the founder or father of Chicago in the late 18th century. However it wasn't officially ...