Chicken heirlooms or breeds of Illinois and the Midwest.

Hello there! I wanna find out which type of chickens were raised and bred in the Midwest by early European settlers including the French, cause I got chickens at my community farm right now. I wanna help my farm invest in Illinois or Midwest bred chickens, ones that came from either French or British settlers after they settled in the Great Lakes. I wanna bring back history the best I can to educate folks the classic side. Please drop in if you all got any questions or comments. Have a good day.

I think you will find that there was no "breed" except for maybe a brief period.  I think people were more practical then and probably got a few chickens from a neighbor wherever they could get them, adding a few from wherever when they could, and probably ended up with a "landrace" of sorts.  I know that's what happened with my flock, and now I just have a mosh :)

You mean the Europeans traded goods and poultry with one another back in the old days? I'm doing an historic restoration of my community where the French and Brits have settled beginning in the 1800s or earlier. Anybody preserving these rare breeds today?