It was settled because...
...the land speculators knew there'd need to be suburbs for that soon-to-be-booming-metropolis known as Fort Dearborn!
Surely an astute student of geo-history as your esteemed self should already know that!
[Edit: typo so the last paragraph made something resembling sense...]
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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March 24, 2005, 08:01:33 PM EST
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