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  • 06.01.2026

    The Quiet Refusal

    The Quiet Refusal

    After the French withdrew and the British assumed control, Chicago did not erup, it withdrew. Pontiac’s War unfolded here through silence, refusal, and tightened trust, as the land resisted authority that arrived without listening and quietly prepared for what would come next. Continue reading

    american-revolution, books, Chicago history, Chicago Portage, Colonial Midwest, Early Chicago, Great Lakes frontier, history, Indigenous Resistance, Pontiac’s War, Potawatomi Chicago, revolutionary-war, travel
  • 08.12.2025

    Before anyone called it a war

    Before anyone called it a war

    Before the French and Indian War had a name, Chicago listened. From 1696 through the early 1750s, chaotic trade, Potawatomi power, firewater, and broken alliances turned the marsh into a warning ground, one that felt the war coming long before the first shot was fired. Continue reading

    american-revolution, canada, Chicago history, Chicago Portage, Colonial North America, Early Chicago, fiction, Firewater trade, Fox Wars, French and Indian War, French fur trade, Great Lakes history, history, Indigenous Midwest, Potawatomi History, Pre-Revolutionary America, travel

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