Fort Dearborn
Americannoun
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But the Fort Dearborn panel, with its depiction of the Potawatomi, likely wouldn’t.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
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
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
The $400 million Fort Dearborn Project calls for the complete rebuilding of 150 acres near the downtown Loop district with apartments, government buildings, a branch of the University of Illinois and large parking facilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dance was carried on in a procession through the peaceful streets, and was concluded at Fort Dearborn in presence of the officers and soldiers of the garrison.
From In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk by Butterworth, Hezekiah
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