Let's get this settled: Founder of Chicago Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable is Haitian and from Haiti Picture Gallery

Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Statue located by michigan bridge in Chicago

Roland Berthold taking picture with Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Statue located by michigan bridge in Chicago

Another picture of Roland Berthold with the founder of the city of Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable by chicago river

Here is a picture taken at night. Roland Berthold and Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Statue located by michigan bridge in Chicago

Here is the writing at Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Statue by Chicago river

Two Haitian born: Roland Berthold and the founder of the city of Chicago Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable.

This is a martens, an animal used by Jean Baptiste when arrived in Chicago for fur to keep worm

Here is the city Jean baptiste point Du Sable was born in in Haiti. The city of St marc is one of the major cities in Haiti. Du Sable moved from Saint Marc to new Orleans with his friend Jacques Clemorgan

Here is a map to show the geographic location of St. mark, the birth city of Jean Baptiste Point Du sable

Another view of St Marc, Haiti

a Potawatomi tribe, where Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable met some friends

a Typical Choctaw family

a Typical Choctaw home

Here is a picture of early Chicago. This is likely how Jean Baptiste settled in Chicago

Another view of early Chicago after Jean Baptiste had settled in Chicago

Here is an imposing statue of the Haitian born Jean baptiste Point Du Sable, the founder of the city of Chicago

Another view of the writings placed by the statue

Proud Haitian Roland berthold posing by the statue of the Haitian born Jean-Baptiste Point Du Sable in Chicago, Illinois

Jean-Baptiste Point du sable in Chicago

View of an angle of the statue of Jean-baptiste Point Du Sable by Michigan Avenue in Chicago

Here is the place of the final rest of Jean-Baptiste Point Du sable. August 29, 1818, Du Sable died in his sleep at age of seventy-three. He was buried at the Catholic cemetery in St. Charles, Missouri.

Trading Post - Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, Jacques Clemorgan, and Choctaw became partners of a trading post in New Orleans