Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (born 1750)

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

Early founder of Chicago (died 1818)

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…