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  • 11.12.2025

    When silence became a warning

    When silence became a warning

    Before the French and Indian War reached the frontier, Chicago felt it coming. Silence thickened, alliances trembled, and warnings traveled through the marsh long before the first shots were fired in the east. This chapter uncovers the quiet dread that shaped Chicago’s world on the brink of a continental conflict. Continue reading

    books, canoeing, Chicago history, Chicago Portage, Colonial America, DuSable Origins, Early Chicago, French and Indian War, Frontier Conflicts, Fur Trade Era, Great Lakes Stories, history, Indigenous Midwest, nature, Potawatomi History, travel
  • 12.11.2025

    The Hidden Secret That Started It All

    The Hidden Secret That Started It All

    Long before skyscrapers, Chicago was a wild, garlic-scented crossroads where tribes traveled a treacherous portage that connected two vast water worlds. This muddy vein tested the strong, swallowed the unworthy, and shaped the destiny of nations. Chicago didn’t rise by chance; fate had already chosen its future. Continue reading

    American Origins, art, books, Chicago history, Early Chicago, fiction, Forgotten Places, Great Lakes Stories, Historical Chicago, Indigenous History, Mythic History, Portage Paths, Prairie Stories, reflective storytelling, Shikaakwa, writing

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