A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America - Second to None: Chicago Stories

Explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important - and neglected - sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes.