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The Argument For Trump To Take Over Chicago

Published September 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 14:20

They occupied Chicago. They didn't build anything. Okay? Very sweet, nice people. They didn't build anything. Chicago really started as a military base in 1803, Fort Dearborn. It was built largely by the way, by the Irish and the Poles and the Czechs and the Bohemians and the Italians. And it was not built by slaves. I mean there was a big influx of black migration that came to Chicago. (14:20–14:27)

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Asserts that Chicago was primarily built by Irish, Polish, Czech, Bohemian, and Italian immigrants.

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