This high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood was named after a settler who was arrested by the British military.
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School was a public 4year high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. 
 The school was named after Chicago's first permanent non-native settler, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable. 
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (or Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable) (before 1750  August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent resident of what became Chicago, Illinois. 
 In 1779, he was living on the site of present-day Michigan City, Indiana, when he was arrested by the British military on suspicion of being an American sympathizer in the American Revolutionary War. 
