Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point (1750?–1814), the first settler on the site of Chicago. In 1779 he built a log cabin on the north bank of the Chicago River and in it opened a post for trade with the Indians. Du Sable had a French father and an African mother. He probably was born in Haiti, and had lived in New Orleans. In 1805 he joined his son in Missouri.
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