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The skyline of Chicago in 1930, as seen from the west, looking east towards Lake Michigan was terrific even then. The gray building in the middle of the picture, on the north bank of the Chicago River was built on the site of the home that belonged to one of Chicago's first mayors. That home was built on the site of the very first Chicago settler, a black Haitian trader named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, who established the first trading post at the mouth  of the Chicago River with the  local Native American tribes. If he had only known what it would become, he might have held out for a higher price.........