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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
The Condorcet Paris-Aubervilliers Campus, known as Condorcet Campus, is an inter-university campus of the universities of Paris, located between Porte de la Chapelle in Paris and La Plaine Saint-Denis in Aubervilliers and inaugurated in 2019. [1] Eleven research universities and institutions are taking part.
Chicago, along with New York City and Los Angeles, California are the three most populous cities of the U.S., yet Chicago is only half the other two cities' individual land areas. Chicago's nickname, "The Windy City," actually acquired from a political op-ed piece, fits the city well as its location on Lake Michigan moderates the climate and ...
The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837, [32] and for several decades was the world's fastest-growing city. [33] As the site of the Chicago Portage, [34] the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States.
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the ...
The name Sorbonne (French: La Sorbonne; / s ɔːr ˈ b ɒ n / sor-BON, US also / s ɔːr ˈ b ɔː n / sor-BAWN; [1] [2] French: ⓘ) is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions (see below).
Sorbonne may refer to: Sorbonne (building) , historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities. Sorbonne Chapel
For more than a century, Chicago was the premier destination for national political conventions. From 1860 to 1968, the city hosted 24 Democratic and Republican party conventions, far more than ...