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Detail from a French map (1775) showing the Chicago Portage The explorers found the Mississippi River, explored it, [ 10 ] and then returned to Michilimakinac by a different route on the advice of Native Americans they had encountered along the way, who told them that there was a better way to return to Lake Michigan.
English: Detail from a map entitled "Partie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada", published in 1755, that shows the “Portage des Chenes” (the portage of oak trees), that later became known as the Chicago Portage.
There are 178 official neighborhoods in Chicago. [1] Neighborhood names and identities have evolved due to real estate development and changing demographics. [2] Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3]
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage [2] in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River , on the west side ...
Pages in category "Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The State of Illinois and City of Chicago had relinquished all rights and interest in the bed of Lake Calumet to the Port District, so as to enable the District to develop Calumet Harbor. [5] The district was given the power to acquire any navigable waters of the state which were within the District area. [ 5 ]
Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast (6 C, 43 P) This page was last edited on 18 April 2022, at 01:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...