In 1790
- Jean Baptist Pointe Desable, a French speaking Santo Domingo native, becomes the first permanent resident and thus founder of Chicago.
In 2009
- Alysa Stanton becomes the first African-American woman ever to be ordained as a rabbi and the first African-American rabbi to lead a majority white congregation
To Inspire You
A people will never look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors
Edmund Burke
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