"It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them." - Mark Twain, 1883. In 1772, a black man from Haiti named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a fur trader, founded a settlement called Eschikagou (ergo Chicago) on the north bank of the Chicago River. From that small trading post it grew into one of the nation’s largest cities, and it wasn’t about to stop. Over the next 20 years, it would quadruple in population, amazing the rest of the world with its ability to repeatedly reinvent itself. Yes, we admit it, WE LOVE DOWNTOWN CHICAGO!!!
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 05:06:05 +0000
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