About this picture: Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (before 1745? St. Marc, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) - August 28, 1818, St. Charles, Mo.), popularly known as "The Father of Chicago", was a Haitian colonist in North America of mixed French and Haitian ancestry.
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable was not only the first person of African descent but the first non-indigenous settler in what is now Chicago, Illinois.
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable was declared the Founder of Chicago by the State of Illinois and City of Chicago on October 26, 1968.
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