CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s City Council voted Friday to change the name of Lake Shore Drive to the name of a Black man recognized as a key settler of the
CHICAGO (AP) Chicago’s City Council voted Friday to change the name of Lake Shore Drive to the name of a Black man recognized as a key settler of the city.
Chicago s Lake Shore Drive renamed to honor Black settler
June 25, 2021
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FILE - In this Sunday, May 31, 2020 file photo, Northbound Lake Shore Drive sits empty of motorists traveling to downtown Chicago as police force traffic off at the 31st Street exit, as part of a security perimeter around the downtown area. Chicago’s City Council voted Friday, June 25, 2021 to add the name of a Black recognized as a key settler of the city to an iconic road. In a compromise, alderman voted to change the name of Lake Shore Drive to Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive. DuSable, a native of Haiti, is considered Chicago’s first permanent, non-indigenous settler.Charles Rex Arbogast/AP
Updated 6/25/2021 9:47 PM
CHICAGO Chicago s city council voted Friday to change the name of Lake Shore Drive to the name of a Black man recognized as a key settler of the city.
But the last surviving member of a rock group that wrote an iconic song about the scenic expressway thinks aldermen took a wrong exit ramp by renaming it Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
I think it s a total atrocity, said Ted Aliotta, who was a drummer in the Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah trio. Some individual s ego trip should not interfere with the most beautiful skyline of any city in the world.
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