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Chicago Honors Joliet Marquette and Clark Pioneers of Northwest
The article recalls Louis Joliet Pere Jacques Marquette and General George Rogers Clark as key explorers and builders of the Midwest. It notes a cross and tablet near Robey Street marking Marquette’s wintering site, the canal prophecy linking Chicago to a lake to gulf waterway, and Chicago Historical Society validation of the site.
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United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
Linais
Chicago
Great Northwest
Louis Joliet
Pere Jacques Marquette
George Rogers Clark
Joliet
Marquette
Clark
Alleghenies
Mississippi
Father Marquette
Lake Michigan
Jole
Lots
Robey Street
Ossian Guthrie
Mmissionary
Guthrie
Thomas A. O'Shaughneasy
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Association of Commerce
Baron de St. Laurent
New France
Canada
Wiiness
Chicago Joliet
Gulf
Here
Chicago Drainage Ship Canal