Chicago’s first permanent settler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, was a baker, a smokehouse manager, a dairyman—and an immigrant. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), he established a sprawling trading outpost at the mouth of the Chicago River that foreshadowed the city’s future as a center of commerce and multicultural exchange; he maintained strong relations with […] The post Immigrants power Chicago’s food industry appeared first on Chicago Reader. ...read more read less