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1 day ago · Louis Jolliet: Sep 21, 1645: 1700: French explorer Lived for one winter in what is now Chicago John Kinzie: Dec 3, 1763: Jan 6, 1828: Early Chicago settler Lived in what is now Chicago Jean Baptiste Point du Sable: Aug 28, 1818: Early Chicago settler Lived in what is now Chicago
1 day ago · That same year, a French expedition led by missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored the Mississippi River and became the first Europeans to map the Mississippi Valley. In 1682, an expedition led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle constructed Fort Prudhomme on the Chickasaw Bluffs in West Tennessee.
