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[3] [5] [6] In 1968, the museum was renamed for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a fur trader of black African ancestry and the first non-Native-American permanent settler in Chicago. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] During the 1960s, the museum and the South Side Community Art Center , which was located across the street, founded in 1941 by Taylor-Burroughs and ...
the Museum of Science and Industry, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Smart Museum of Art, and DuSable Museum in Hyde Park; Lincoln Park's Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago History Museum, Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Steppenwolf Theatre;
Located in the park is the DuSable Museum of African American History. This park was the proposed site of the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic swimming venue for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Washington Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 2004.
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]
Chicago's DuSable Museum has turned over hate mail letters to the U.S. Secret Service they received shortly after President Joe Biden's inauguration.
Driehaus Museum; DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center; F. ... McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum; Museum of Broadcast Communications;
DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center; Retrieved from " ...
Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre (1.5 km 2) park of the same name, [2] stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd. It is home to the DuSable Museum of African American History.