Fort Dearborn
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The four panels were created in 1928 to honor the city’s rebuilding after the Chicago Fire, the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the early settler John Kinzie and the explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
But the Fort Dearborn panel, with its depiction of the Potawatomi, likely wouldn’t.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
John Kinzie ran a saloon and moonlighted as a silversmith in the early 1800s, when Chicago was nothing more than Fort Dearborn and a few pioneers.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 6, 2014
At Chicago undergraduates promptly set up "Fort Dearborn Post No. 1," declared: "We will make the world safe for hypocrisy!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Contains one of the earliest accounts of the massacre at Fort Dearborn, August 15, 1812.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
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