The World of Juliette Kinzie

A “fascinating” biography of an early Chicago settler, a social and cultural force in the city, and one of America’s first female historians ( Chicago Sun-Times ). When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked any sense of community. In the decades that followed, not only did Juliette witness th