Did you know that Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was recognized as the "Founder of Chicago?

Did you know that Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois?

Did you know that Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was recognized as the "Founder of Chicago? 

Did you know that Baptiste was of African descent?

Did you know that a school, museum, harbor, park, bridge, and road have been named in his honor?

 The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is identified as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court.

Did you know that Baptiste was not officially recognized as the city founder until 1968?

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