25-52 Resolution Approving and Adopting the LaSalle Park Neighborhood Plan (Substitute)

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Neighborhood Lancluse Timeline Overview The following timeline highlights the multi-century 7-r• Menominee Ottawa allo s a evolution of the LaSalle Park Neighborhood.Focusing ""'" .' on the geological.cultural,and land use history allows t.APOR ]. si.utsl•a,u a ' for a deeper understanding of the current conditions of t'��` Pott'rr"H Sac $ potawate'•. —•—• —•—•—'—'—'_ the neighborhood. Meskwaki o RAL• 'S L 4 /WE L•Kea __ _ • STARKE Kiekapoo ',sJu,7%y.e .tift,toas,e•ln" f A_'.- _b°0"487r f C Miami Ott' i ' .. Grand --- .. ..,. JASP K• ankakee llfinc . , - - a Marsh - `• Morocco . EWryil_ Shawnee • • e 1600 -. 1679 Y Grand Kankakee Marsh Native Tribes Fur Trade & French Settlement The Great North-South Continental Divide(aka By the t6o0's.Native American groups,primarily the The Kankakee River served as major route for Native the"Midwest continental divide")that separates Miami and later the Potawatomi,had been living in the Americans and early settlers,notably French fur the Great Lakes watershed from the south Atlantic St.Joseph River Valley for centuries before European trappers.South Bend and Lasalle Park were once part Ocean watershed also runs through South Bend and settlement began.The Miami tribe was an Indigenous of a major route used by Native Americans and French LaSalle Park.To the north of the divide the St.Joseph group near southern Lake Michigan,settling in a explorers to conned the Great Lakes and the Gulf of River empties into Lake Michigan.and to the south, village along the St.Joseph River.Later,the St Joseph Mexico via an overland canoe portage between the the Kankakee River flows towards the Mississippi River, Potawatomi became the primary inhabitants,occupying Kankakee and St.Joseph rivers.On December 3,1.679, The Kankakee had a meandering course,nearly 24o the region along the St.Joseph River for a significant with a group of 4o,French explorer LaSalle headed miles tong.through surrounding wetlands known as period.drawn to its rich resources. south from Fort Miami(St.Joseph.Michigan),canoeing the Grand Kankakee Marsh With headwaters at South up the St.Joseph River to a portage at present-day Bend,the"Everglades of the North"covered over 5,30o South Bend. square miles from current day South Bend westward into Illinois:perhaps the largest inland marsh wetland in They crossed through the LaSalle Park area to the the US. Kankakee River and followed it to the Illinois River eventually reaching Peoria.Illinois.Broader European settlement followed.led by the English and French. Lasalle's Landing is commemorated on the west bank of the St Joseph River,just east of where Pinhook Park is today.