Mapping the Chicago Portage – Lecture Series
Lyons Public Library 4209 Joliet Avenue, Lyons, IL, United States“Mapping the Chicago Portage: Seventeenth-Century Explorations by Jolliet, Marquette, La Salle, and Joutel” Presented by Richard Gross When a local amateur historian, John Swenson, and a podcast by a group of Chicago historians, writers, and artists asserted a route south of Chicago, different from the site