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    Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818)...
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    The Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite is the location where, around the 1780s, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable located his home and extensive trading...
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    Kitihawa Point Du Sable (also known by her Christian name, Catherine) was a Potawatomi woman who, with her husband Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, established...
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    Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive, and called DuSable Lake Shore Drive, The Outer Drive, The Drive, LSD or DLSD)...
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  • A bronze bust of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable by Erik Blome is installed in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The work was installed in 2009. The...
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    Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School is a public 4–year high school campus in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois,...
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    Chicago, connecting on the north near the 1780s homestead site of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and on the south the early 19th century site of Fort Dearborn...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pitois, French writer on the occult Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, first settler in Chicago Jean-Baptiste...
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    announced in 1987 by Mayor Harold Washington, is named in honor Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who settled nearby in the 1780s and is known as the "Founder...
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  • butterfish Sable Island, an island in Nova Scotia Avinash Sable, Indian athlete Devdatta Sable, Indian music composer Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, first...
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    Chicago's Magnificent Mile. It is believed to be the site of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable's original residence and trading post. In 1965, the plaza was...
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    minister, businessman, educator Jane Minor, healer and emancipator Jean Baptiste Point du Sable: founder of Chicago and trader Lucy Terry: author Sojourner Truth:...
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    their interaction with the local Pottawatomie Native Americans. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was the first permanent non-indigenous settler in the area, having...
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    might have had a trading-post near Wolf Point on the Chicago River around 1778. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a French-speaking colonist of African descent...
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    is Pioneer Court, which marks the site of the homestead of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable who is recognized as the founder of Chicago. On the south bank...
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  • William Burnett of Canada. In 1800, he purchased the homestead of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable for Burnett for 6,000 livres. The bill of sale was filed in Detroit...
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    Chicago (category Cities in DuPage County, Illinois)
    The first known permanent settler in Chicago was trader Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African descent, perhaps born in the French colony...
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    banks of the Chicago River near today's Michigan Avenue Bridge, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable built the first known permanent settlement in what was called...
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    early American settlers and black freemen, including Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and W. E. B. Du Bois, were of Haitian origin. The educational system...
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    Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African...
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    children, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, Jr. and Suzanne, were born before her in 1776 and 1778, respectively. In 1812 Kinzie murdered Jean La Lime, who...
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    North Michigan) Other notable sites include Pioneer Court the Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite (401 North Michigan), which as the site of Chicago's...
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  • Richard Allen (organized the AME church) Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (1st settler of Chicago) First African Baptist...
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    3806 S. Michigan Avenue. In 1968, the museum was renamed for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a fur trader of black African ancestry and the first non-Native-American...
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    opened at this street. Jacques Marquette Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Brasseaux, 2000 William Pelfrey (2006)....
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    Haiti in various forms to the United States is deeply rooted. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, an immigrant from Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), founded...
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    airport, while there is a train stop serving the Gary airport. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent resident of Chicago, Illinois...
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    population campaigned for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable to be honored at the fair. At the time, few Chicagoans had even heard of Point du Sable, and the fair's organizers...
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    landmarks. The neighborhood hosts a National Historic Landmark, the Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite, the home of the first non-Native, husband of a Native...
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    5 Radio Megalexis 97.9 500w Radio L'Union Stéréo-Saint-Marc Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (before 1750): First permanent non-Indigenous settler of what...
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