Pre-Colonial Chicago

*Chicago was founded in 1833
*One of the earliest journal entries written about what would soon become Chicago was in 1688, by Henri Joutel, which talked about how much wild garlic grew in the area.
*In the mid 18th century, a Native American tribe called the "Potawatomi" lived in the Chicago area.
* Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable is considered the founder of Chicago. In the 1780's, he became the first permanent resident of Chicago. He was of African and European descent, and was the first black settler in that area. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_dusable.html
* The Native Americans were forced from their land, after the treaty of Chicago was signed in 1833.