Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
✓ Source-basedstableEarly founder of Chicago
Business ProfessionalsLived 1745 to 1818 · aged 73
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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder.
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Map of eastern North America in the late 18th century, just prior to the American Revolutionary War. Point du Sable lived near Lake Michigan and the Illinois Country (center left).
Drawing of the former home of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable in Chicago as it appeared in the early 1800s
The DuSable Museum in Washington ParkIn their orbit 1
Business Professionals born in the 1740s 6
About this person
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, 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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Business Professionals
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Business Professional
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deceased
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Lived 1745 to 1818 · aged 73
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