With a garland of white flowers in front of him, a lone rower kneeling in a wooden canoe glided toward the DuSable Bridge docks. After stilling his vessel, two men on the Riverwalk helped him hoist ...

Jean Baptiste Point DuSable built a homestead at the convergence of the river and lake. Jean Baptiste Point DuSable is considered by many to be the first non-Indigenous settler and the founder of what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Architectural Digest has named Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive as one of the most beautiful streets in ...

When Courtney Pierre Joseph, associate professor of history and African American studies at Lake Forest College, was researching the history of Haitians in Chicago for her dissertation, she found ...

CHICAGO — Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive it is. Or rather, will soon be. Two years after a South Side alderman introduced an ordinance to rebrand the landmark Chicago Lake Shore Drive to ...

Chicago was founded by a Haitian. Chef Daniel Aurel, 26, wants people to know that. There is a large, vibrant mural of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable — the city’s founder — on the outside of his ...

Thirty-six years after Mayor Harold Washington dedicated a park named for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable near the mouth of the Chicago River, the first structure has finally been built there. It’s ...

At just 3.4 acres, the long-awaited $15 million Jean-Baptiste Point DuSable Park won’t be the city’s largest public green space, but it has the potential to be one of the best. As it should be. The ...

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Guests listen as Jean Voltaire, board member of the DuSable Heritage Association, opens a ceremony honoring the legacy of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, Aug. 23, 2025, at DuSable Bridge in Chicago’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Architectural Digest has named ...