The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success
In 1790
- Jean Baptist Pointe Desable, a French speaking Santo Domingo native, becomes the first permanent resident and thus founder of Chicago.
In 2009
- Alysa Stanton becomes the first African-American woman ever to be ordained as a rabbi and the first African-American rabbi to lead a majority white congregation