Personality
Merchant · Pioneer
📍 Birthplace Saint-Marc
1745 – August 28, 1818
Haiti
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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.
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Places
- Birthplace
- Saint-Marc
- Languages
- French, Spanish, English
Official links and sources
Information from
- Wikidata, Q492555 (CC0)
- Photo: Copyrighted to Moses Engineering Company, New York, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons