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Meet Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, The Haitian Entrepreneur Who Founded Chicago

Meet Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, The Haitian Entrepreneur Who Founded Chicago

Before the Chicago bears, Michael Jordan, Chicago Pizza, there was a Haitian wh started all that. Born in St marc, Haiti, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable is widely known as the founder of the city of Chicago. He was born in the Haitian city of Saint Marc in 1776 as a free black man, then moved to the US at a young age. In Chicago, he settled along the Chicago river with friends. Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable met his wife Catherine there

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