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Title: Real estate record and builders' guide (electronic resource)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Real property Construction industry
Publisher: New York, F. W. Dodge Corp
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Indians. Joliet was the agent of thi Governor of New France—Louisi-jana—and it was he who first revealed to the world the existence Iof the river upon which Chicago is now situated. He did so in a ; SUPPLEMENT Record and Guide. map which formed part of his report to his superior. A letter ofLa Salles, datedJune 4, 1683, is subscribed Portage de Checagou.After its discovery, the mouth of the river became a trading portfor hunters and fur dealers; but no permanent settlement of anykind is known to have been established until the last quarter of theeighteenth century. The first settler of Chicago was one Baptiste regarded as commenced, though the city was not incorporateduntil 1837. The population in 1837 was 4,170. In 1847 it was 16,859.Then the great growth of the town began. In 1855 the popu-lation was 80,000, rising to 100,206 in I860, 200,418 in 1866, 306,605in 1870. The half million was reached in 1880. The presentinhabitants claim that they number anywhere from 1,250,000 to a
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Point De Saule, an escaped San Domingoan slave. He was livingas a trapper there in 1779, carrying on a lucrative trade with theIndians. His success attracted other settlers, and in time a smallcolony of French trappers and traders with their Indian wives andhalf-breed progeny grew up on Chicago Portage. In 1803, to counteract the influence of the British among theIndians, the United States Government erectedFort Dearborn. Themassacre of 1812 followed, and withMt total destruction of the littlesettlement, which remained desolate until 1814, when the fort wasrebuilt and population began to return. In 1818 Illinois wasadmitted into the Union, and the career of Chicago may fairly be number which it is impossible to set down, because it is changed bythe Chicago census makers so frequently. Sooner or later, in treating of Chicago one is sure to run into fig-ures. It is the most figure-described city in the world; so that it isperhaps well to supplement what has gone before by a few statisti

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