Antoine Ouilmette, a resident of Chicago A. D. 1790-1826

The first settler of Evanston and Wilmette (1826-1838) with a brief history of his family and the Ouilmette reservation.

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Ouilmette was a French trader with a Pottawatomie wife. The Ouilmette Reservation was a large tract of land he owned on the shores of Lake Michigan where Evanston and Wilmette are now located. Ouilmette was likely one of the first three or four white settlers in the Chicago area.

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