Chicago:City of Innovation
Before Chicago became the bustling metropolis that it is today, it had to start small. Originally known as Chigagaou, which roughly translates “The Wild Garlic Place” in the Miami Native American dialect, the land went uninhabited by local Native American tribes due to the rough, boggy terrain. It wasn’t until1673 when Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, two French explorers who were assigned to tread tough the then French-owned land, came through the marsh on their way back to the French-Canadian territory. Seeing potential in the land as a place to spread Christianity to the local tribes, Marquette stayed behind and built a house on the land. Fig. 1. A picture depicting Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet as they tread a waterway. While Marquette ended up dying in 1675, two years after he built his house, it wasn’t long that explorers from the east would end up in the area. Eventually, a small community would aris...