Title: Antoine Ouilmette
Description: 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.
Subjects: Indian reservations, Potawatomie Indians, Pioneers, Reservations, Biography, History
Places: Evanston (Il), Wilmette (Il)
People: Antoine Ouilmette
Time periods: 1790-1826