The word “chicago,” is said to derive from an Indian word describing the strong smell of decaying flora in the marshes along the river banks. It was French explorer Louis Jolliet and French missionary Jacques Marquette who, in 1673, discovered the one-and-a-half mile’s of portage at Chicago. It was French explorer Louis Jolliet and French missionary Jacques Marquette who, in 1673, discovered the one-and-a-half mile’s of portage at Chicago. Marquette, in good standings with the Indians, learned of an already established route that connected the Illinois River with the Great Lakes region by way of the Chicago River, and the Des Plains River with the Mississippi River Valley. But, it was the completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848 that made the trading of livestock, grain, and lumber between industrious East and the pioneering wild West possible.

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