Chicago River – Part 1

Exploration

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Aquired_Lands_of_the_US.svg

https://www.neworleans.com/things-to-do/history/history-of-new-orleans-by-period/#:~:text=Colonial%20New%20Orleans&text=Claimed%20for%20the%20French%20Crown,95%20miles%20above%20its%20mouth

https://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/hi_explore.html

https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/egle/Documents/Programs/GRMD/Catalog/04/IMDL-GGNCD.PDF?rev=a769920008a84d23b396016038d13756

https://copper.org/education/history/timeline/timeline.html

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/chpo/chicago_portage.pdf

Population Growth

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/962.html

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chicago-timeline/

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1753.html

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/821.html

I&M Canal

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/626.html

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1753.html

https://www.lakeheadu.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/53/outlines/2017-18/GEOG4411/History%20of%20Chicago%20water%20Diversion.pdf

https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/environment/ChicagoDiversionHistoryMarch5.pdf

https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/archives/teaching_packages/I_and_M_canal/home.html

https://iandmcanal.org/canalhistory/

Chicago Portage

https://oprfmuseum.org/continental-divide-online-exhibit

https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/H001785.pdf

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-chicago-transformed-from-midwestern-outpost-town-to-towering-city-180970526/

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015024232657&seq=23

Du Sable

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Baptist-Point-Du-Sable

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410078.html

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410078