Early Chicago
Chicago's first permanent non-indigenous resident
What is Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.
True or False: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 raged for three days.
What is True.
Two genres of music created by black people in Chicago.
What is Gospel, Blues, or House music.
True or False: The first ferris wheel was invented for Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair.
What is True.
Name two of the four US presidents that have claimed Illinois as their home state.
What is Lincoln, Grant, Reagan and Obama.
The group of about 13 tribes that lived in the Illinois area.
What is The Illinois "Confederation".
(or Inoka Confederation)
The percentage of US railway freight that travels through Chicago today.
What is 50%.
True or False: Black people that moved to early Chicago were assimilated and welcomed throughout the whole city.
What is False.
(Black people were concentrated into small pockets throughout the city, primarily on the South Side)
A product made popular by the World’s Fair of 1893.
What is Juicy Fruit Gum, Aunt Jemima, the Hamburger, the Ferris Wheel, or post cards.
Name a Chicago sports team.
What is Cubs, Bulls, Sky, White Sox, Bears, Blackhawks, Red Stars, etc.
The birthplace was of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.
What is Saint Marc, Saint Dominique (Modern day Haiti).
The primary motivation for Chicagoans lifting their streets by 5-8 feet in the 1850s.
What is to create a sewer system.
The neighborhood on Chicago’s south side saw its population expand as a result of the Great Migration?
What is Bronzeville AKA Black Metropolis.
What was the official name of the 1933 worlds’ fair?
A Century of Progress
The number of neighborhoods in Chicago.
What is 77.
The number of registered Native Americans living in Chicago today.
What is than 75,000.
(or 65,000 because that’s what the presentation said)
The current resting place of the rubble/debris from the Great Chicago Fire.
What is dumped into Lake Michigan. (now the land beneath Grant Park, Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago)
The name of the oldest independent African American history museum in the country.
What is The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.
The event that the building of the Museum of Science and Industry initially made for.
What is the 1893 World’s Fair Columbian Exposition.
What is the population of Chicago?
What is 2.7 million people
The year Jean Baptist Point du Sable first settled in Chicago.
What is 1778.
(or 1779 according to some accounts)
The primary motivation for Chicagoans reversing the flow of the Chicago River in 1900.
What is sewage flowing into Lake Michigan and spreading illness. (reversing the river made it flow towards the Mississippi instead)
The year were black people allowed to live as free men/women in Illinois?
1865, after the Civil War.
The number of people the first Ferris Wheel could fit.
What is 2,160.
When did Chicago become an official city?
What is 1837.