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jan 20, 1779 - Chicago was founded

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Chicago was found by Jean Baptiste in 1779. "Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a fur trader born of an African slave woman in Haiti, built, in 1779, the first permanent settlement in what is now known as Chicago" (Wilkerson 537).

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jan 20, 1779
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~ 246 years ago