City Dedicates Mag Mile’s DuSable Statue
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Last updated: Sunday, October 18, 2009

Chicago dedicated a bronze bust in honor of a man once thought of as the founder of Chicago on Saturday, according to Chicago Breaking News . Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable was a Haitian fur trapper and the “first non-indigenous settler to the Chicago area,” the report said. He was named founder of the city by the state of Illinois in 1968. The bust, which was donated by members of the city’s Haitian-American community, is located on the east side of Michigan Avenue, north of the Chicago River.

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