Historical Facts About Downtown Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois. In fact, Chicago, Illinois, is the third largest city in America. The city has many nicknames "Windy City," "a city that works" and "city of broad shoulders." The Chicago River in Chicago contributed to the development of a small trading post at a major center of trade and transportation.

The first permanent settler in Chicago was not a native of the country, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who built a farm at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1780. In 1795, after the Indian War Northwest, some Indians have given Chicago area in the United States at a military post in the Treaty of Greenville.

Here are some additional facts about Chicago:

• The first birth was recorded in Chicago in 1796 Eulalia Pointe du Sable, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable and his Potawatomi Indian wife.

• US built Fort Dearborn in 1803 on the Chicago River.
 

• Fort Dearborn was destroyed during the War of 1812 at Fort Dearborn Battle and especially the inhabitants were killed.

• Historians consider filing Aug. 4, 1830 Platform that official recognition of a city known as the Chicago.
 

• Yankees entrepreneurs saw the potential of Chicago as a transportation hub in 1830 and attended the conjecture of land for selected lots.
 

• Property Yankees operators created a city in a very short time in the 1830s.
 

• On 12 August 1833, the city of Chicago, has evolved with a population of 350.
 

• The first telegraph communication between New York and Chicago was founded on June 10, 1848
 

• In 1848, the Illinois channel beginning and Michigan allows you to send the Great Lakes through Chicago to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
 

• In 1850, the architecture of railroads made Chicago a great center, more than 30 input lines of the city.
 

• In 1855, the first police department in Chicago was organized under Mayor Dr. Levi Boone.
 

• In 1871, most of the city was burned in the great fire of Chicago.
 

• Between 1870 and 1900, in Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million, the fastest growing city in history at that time.

The city has dyed the river in 1962 in green to celebrate St. Patrick. orange dye spilled into the river turns green river.