Stories and Sketches of Chicago

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Excerpt from Stories and Sketches of Chicago: An Interesting, Entertaining, and Instructive Sketch History of the Wonderful City by the Sea Then he said: I see you have not settled upon your pronunciation yet, as members of your own delegation pro nounce it differently, as we then did. The first written account of the Northwest bears the date of 1654, when two French fur-traders from Canada Visited this country, and two years after returned and gave such glowing descriptions of the region as excited a gen eral disposition to explore it. Yet there may have been white men in Chicago even be fore that time. It is claimed that there was a missionary station at Mackinaw about 1607. The place thereof is still known as Point Ignace. It was there that the remains of Father James Marquette were taken, about 1720, from the banks of Marquette River, over in Michigan, where he died May 18, 1675. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.