These tours looked at 4 different Chicago Community Areas along the northern Indian Boundary line, namely Rogers Park, Jefferson Park, Forest Glen and West Ridge.

The Treaty of St. Louis is a series of treaties between the United States and Native American tribes created between 1804 and 1824. These treaties dramatically reshaped the boundaries of what are now the Midwest States and served as the beginning of a new US policy of acquiring the land of indigenous Nations and displacing their people. These treaties were a continuation of a less official policy of land grabbing and indigenous people displacement that began with the arrival of the first Europeans and continued with the formation of the American Colonies and the establishment of the United States.

The Treaty of St. Louis would serve as a precursor for Andrew Jackson’s administration, which no longer placed any importance in negotiating with separate Nations. The administration subsequently adopted a hardline policy leading to the Indian Removal Act—the forced displacement of all indigenous people east of the Mississippi River further to the West and away from their own lands—and the establishment of the doctrine of eminent domain.