Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable
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Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable was considered the first non-indigenous settler in Chicago, of mixed French and African descent.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentSarah VowellThis American Life · 128: Four Corners · 7:59 · 28 Jun
…The first person to get cracking on Joliet's dream was Chicago's first permanent settler, Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a trader who built a cabin here on the north side of the river in 1779, a century after Joliet paddled by.…
Don WildmanAmerican History Hit · The Origins of Chicago · 12:37 · 9 Apr
…The first permanent non-Indigenous settler is a guy, very tellingly, Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable.…
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