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Chicago incorporated March 4, 1837
South Side of Chicago is a neighborhood in the city of Chicago. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (Born before 1750 – 28 August 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the “Founder of Chicago”.
A school, museum, harbor, park, bridge, and road have been named in his honor. The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is identified as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court.
Chicago is home to Abraham W. Bolden, Sr who was born on January 19, 1935. He was the first African American to serve on a presidential security detail as a member of the U.S. Secret Service at the age of 26.
Mr Bolden said he was assigned to the Secret Service’s Presidential Protective Division after he met Kennedy on April 28, 1961, while working an event at the McCormick Place in Chicago. He said that Kennedy personally invited him to join the White House detail as the first African American assigned to protect the President.
Bolden said that at one time Kennedy introduced him to others as “the Jackie Robinson of the Secret Service”, a comment Bolden found so touching he almost broke into tears.
Abraham W. Bolden was also reported to have “won two commendations for cracking counterfeiting rings”. According to Jet magazine: “In 1962 he ranked second in the nation in solving” counterfeit and check forging cases. As a law enforcement professional and a family man, Abraham W. Bolden, Sr served his country honorably before, during, and after his Secret Service career ended.
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