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
One panel depicting the Battle of Fort Dearborn shows U.S.
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
Five years after Detroit received three hundred arrivals per week, Chicago had about a dozen houses, besides Fort Dearborn.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton
