OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



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his friendship for the 

 Kinzies and that Chi- 

 cago colony. 



Sauganash was 

 really the savior of 

 the Kinzie family. 

 After the members of 

 the Kinzie household 

 had escaped miracu- 

 lously from the 

 slaughter at what is 

 now Eighteenth 

 Street, the Indians 



their faces decorated with death paint had invaded the Kinzie 

 home. 



With a word Sauganash sent them away and with the help 

 of Robinson, Pottowatomie chief known as Chee-Chu-Pin-Quay 

 or Che-Chee-Bing-Way, he safely conducted John Kinzie and 

 the half dozen survivors of the massacre to the fort at St. Joseph, 

 Mich. 



Later he lived for years just north of the village at what 

 is now State street and Chicago avenue in a house built for him 

 by the government. In addition to the land he was given an 

 annuity of $400 and by the treaty of 1833 he was awarded 

 $10,000, an amount that the United States Senate cut in half. 



He was popular with the settlers, saving them from many 

 Indian attacks, and at one time was one of the city's accredited 

 justices of the peace though he never became a citizen. In 

 1836 he left with his people for Council Bluffs, accomplishing 

 the Indian removal in which laws and soldiers had failed. 



Sauganash Hotel, the first institution of its kind in Chicago, 

 was named for this Indian but it has been nothing but a memory 

 for many years. Practically the only hope of preserving the 

 names of these noteworthy Redskins rests in the Caldwell and 

 Robinson reservations now a part of the preserves. 



Caldwell's reser- 

 vation was that pic- 

 turesque stretch of 

 timberland on the 

 Chicago River be- 

 tween Bryn Mawr 

 and Kenilworth ave- 

 nues, the boundaries 

 being fixed under the 

 original grant made 

 by President Tyler 

 Dec. 28, 1843. 



The Robinson 



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