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The 1833 Treaty of Chicago was an agreement between the United States government and the Chippewa, Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes. It required them to cede to the United States government their 5,000,000 acres (2,000,000 ha) of land (including reservations) in Illinois, the Wisconsin Territory, and the Michigan Territory and to move west of the Mississippi River.
In 1795, in a then minor part of the Treaty of Greenville, a Native American confederation granted treaty rights to the United States in a six-mile parcel of land at the mouth of the Chicago River. [nb 1] [2] This was followed by the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis, which ceded additional land in the Chicago area, including the Chicago Portage. [3]
Treaty of Green Bay (1828) - Winnebago, etc. Second Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1829) - Council of Three Fires; 1833 Treaty of Chicago (1833) - Council of Three Fires; Each of the following treaties is commonly referred to as the Treaty with the Potawatomi, though it was the official title of none of them. Treaty of Portage des Sioux (1815)
Most of Wheatland Township was still owned by the Potawatomi, a Native American tribe, until 1833. The 1833 Treaty of Chicago obtained this land and officially made it available for settlement. Growth was slow during the 1830s, due to a lack of significant wooded lands.
1776 – Model Treaty passed by the Continental Congress becomes the template for its future international treaties [6] 1776 – Treaty of Watertown – a military treaty between the newly formed United States and the St. John's and Mi'kmaq First Nations of Nova Scotia, two peoples of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
Retrospective map showing how Chicago may have appeared in 1812(right is north) ... The 1833 treaty initially provided Caldwell and Robinson each with $10,000 ...
Before the Industrial Revolution had made its way to the western Great Lakes, the land remained in the hands of the Potawatomi until the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. [5] Small farm families dotted the land for several decades until 1873, of which a train station was built along the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in the neighboring village (once an unincorporated area) of Gurnee. [6]
The Potawatomi surrendered their claims to the land the United States Federal Government in 1833 through the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which (after being ratified in 1835) required them to leave Wisconsin by 1838.