Matthew Beaudet: Lightfoot champions all Chicagoans, including formerly 'invisible' Native American community
Briefly

Whether called Shikaakwa or Checagou, our city continues to be home to a thriving Native American community that was established centuries before the arrival of French traders in the early 1670s.Though primarily populated by the Anishinaabe - Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi - Chicago embraced diversity, counting numerous tribes among its inhabitants.
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