Happy Birthday Chicago you are 173! - Where's the party?

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Permalink Reply by cutifly on March 4, 2010 at 11:35am

That's the day we officially took it away from the Native Americans ? Did I say that right ?

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Permalink Reply by rik on March 4, 2010 at 11:54am

Maybe? Du Sable started a farm and trading post.
I thing it was a swampy onion patch that no one wanted.
He was a Haitian who married a Potawatomi woman named Kittihawa
So Native americans and Haitians were here right at the start.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on March 4, 2010 at 3:28pm

It's the day Chicago was incorporated as a municipality.

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