Dusable Park

Chicago Illinois Parks

Welcome to Chicago's Dusable Park, located at the point where the Chicago River flows into Lake Michigan. This piece of land was created by fill materials in the mid-19th century and is named after the first non-Native American to settle in the Chicago Region, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, a Haitian who journeyed the Mississippi River from New Orleans all the way to Chicago while stopped in St. Louis to marry a Potawatomi woman. Two centuries later Chicago is a very different place from the onw that Dusable knew and is the nation's third largest city with a diversity of ethnic groups. This small site remains undeveloped but was renovated by the City of Chicago in 2012.

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