In 1848 Chicago got its first telegraph and railroad. The modern city was incorporated in 1837 by Northern businessmen and grew speedily from real estate speculation and the recognition that it had a dominant position in the showing inland transportation network, based on lake traffic and railroads, handling access from the Great Lakes into the Mississippi River basin. Chicago was incorporated as a town in 1833 and as a city in 1837 when its population hit 4,000. The 1832 Black Hawk War finished the last Native American struggle in the area.
Army fort, but the soldiers and colonists were all driven off in 1812. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was the first stable non-indigenous settler in the area, having a house at the mouth of the Chicago River in the late 18th century. The fort was smashed during the war of 1812 but it was rebuilt in 1816. Then in 1803, the American government built a fort called Fort Dearborn. The first non-indigenous human to make his home in the area was an African American from the Caribbean called Jean Baptiste Point du Sable who manufactured a house there in 1779. However, the French did not determine the area. The name Chicago is evolved from a Natural American word of unclear meaning, checagou.
In that year two Frenchmen, Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet landed in the area. History Of Chicago: The History Of Chicago begins in the year 1673.
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