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Title: Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ... What to see and how to see it
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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(11) GENERAL FACTS AS TO CHICAGO. 15 connecting the South with the West Side, at Washington Street;the second forming a similar link between the North and Southsides, at La Salle Street; and the third is located at Van BurenStreet, and is nearly completed. History, Population, Climate, and Statistics.—Theearliest mention of Chicago is to be found in the writings of theJesuit, Charlevoix, who records the arrival of a fur trader andinterpreter, Nicholas Perrot, in 1671, at the lower end of theLac lies Illinois (Lake Michigan), where the Miami Indiansare. Subsequently the site of Chicago was pressed by the adventur-ous feet of Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle, in those pioneer andperilous wanderings which were, indeed, prophetic precursors ofthe vast tide of white immigration. The first non-autochthonalsettler was one Baptiste Point de Saible, a handsome and well-edu-cated negro, wealthy, and a fur trader. His successor was aFrenchman named Le Mai, who, in the early part of 1804, trans-

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