First non-native settler

The signage in this shot reads ..."Honorary: Du Sable Founders Way" ...

Its named after the first non-native settler of Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, an African American from Sainte Domingue, Haiti ... In 1779 he built the first permanent home on the northern banks of Chicago River ... which is about this area ...

He married a local woman of Potawatomi tribe and they had a son and a daughter. He was into fur trade and became very rich. However when he failed in an effort to become a Potawatomi Chief, he sold his property and moved to St.Charles. In 1912, the city of chicago placed a marker in his memory at the corner of Kinzie and Pine streets.

I was shocked to find out that the population of Chicago was just 100 in 1830 ...