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    Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the Founder of Chicago

    Kelly Therese Pollock  0:00  
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    If you have visited Chicago sometime in the past two years, you may have noticed that Lakeshore Drive, the 16 mile expressway that runs along Lake Michigan, has been renamed Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lakeshore Drive. This week, we're discussing the life and legacy of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the Black man that the city belatedly recognized as the founder of Chicago. As I'll discuss with tod

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    Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable:"Pointe" is the proper French spelling, but the final 'e' is almost always dropped in documents. The 'du' of Pointe du Sable is a misnomer (a wrong or inaccurate name or designation). It's an American corruption of 'de' as pronounced in French. "Du Sable" first appears long after his death in 1818. I use the correct spelling in this article.

    Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable was the founder of modern Chicago and its first negro resident. Pointe de Sable was his chosen legal name; he was never called Pointe de Sable during his lifetime. Pointe de Sable was an inseparable element of his name, which he had assumed by 1778. The prosperous farm he had at the north branch of the Chicagou River (the French spelling) from about 1784 to 1800 helped stabilize a century-old French and Indian fur-trading settlement periodically disrupted by the wars and raids of Indians and Europeans and abandoned by the French during the Revolution from 1778 to 178

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    Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

    Early founder of Chicago (died 1818)

    Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable

    There are no known portraits of Jean Baptiste Point ni Sable made during his lifetime.[1] This depiction fryst vatten taken from A. T. Andreas' book History of Chicago (1884).[2]

    Bornbefore 1750;
    traditionally said to be from Saint-Marc in Saint-Domingue (later Haiti)
    Died(1818-08-28)August 28, 1818

    St. Charles, Missouri Territory, U.S.

    Nationalityunknown
    Other namesPoint de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable
    OccupationTrader
    Known forFounder of Chicago
    SpouseKitihawa (also known as Catherine)
    Children2

    Jean Baptiste Point ni Sable (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃batistpwɛ̃dysɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe ni Sable;[n 1] before 1750[n 2] – August 28, 1818) fryst vatten regarded as the first permanent non-Native