Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

CTL-E-0402 · Person · unspecified

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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, born in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), was Chicago's first non-Indigenous permanent settler and is recognized as the founder of Chicago.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-086; source research type(s): Person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Thomas A. Meehan, 'Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the First Chicagoan,' Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 56.3 (1963), via unsunghistorypodcast.com; doctoral dissertation on Haitians in Chicago (core.ac.uk/download/158322418.pdf); Arcadia Publishing, Haitians in Chicago

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