Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Settles in future Chicago
- Date Range
- 1750 – 1818
- Title
- Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Settles in future Chicago
- What occurred
- Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was the first non-native settler of Chicago. Du Sable set up a successful fur trading post which involved interaction between settlers and the indigenous Potawatomi tribe who hunted beaver. Du Sable built his home at the mouth of the Chicago river.
- Location
- Chicago
- Image Citation
- A.T. Andreas, History of Chicago (1884)
- Student name(s)
- Max Levenson