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The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995); essays by scholars covering important mayors before 1980; Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II (2003) excerpt and text search; short and heavily illustrated; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online
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]
August 4, Chicago is surveyed and platted for the first time by James Thompson. Population: "Less than 100". [1] 1833 1833 Treaty of Chicago; Chicago incorporated as a town. [1] 1835 August 31, about 800 Potawatomi men gathered for a war dance in Chicago before being removed to west of the Mississippi River. [2] 1837 Chicago incorporated as a ...
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
Map of the Trace. The Trace was created by millions of migrating bison that were numerous in the region from the Great Lakes to the Piedmont of North Carolina. [2] It was part of a greater buffalo migration route that extended from present-day Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, through Bullitt's Lick, south of present-day Louisville, and across the Falls of the Ohio River to Indiana, then ...
The Southwest Territory covered 43,000 square miles (110,000 km 2), [2] consisting of what is now Tennessee, with the exception of a few minor boundary changes resulting from later surveys. [1] To its north was Virginia's District of Kentucky, which became the 15th U.S. state in 1792. [2]
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...
William Whitley (August 4, 1749 – October 5, 1813), was an American pioneer in what became Kentucky, in the colonial and early Federal period. Born in Virginia, he was the son of Scottish Presbyterian immigrants from northern Ireland, then the Ulster Plantation.