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The fight rages on over a proposal to rename Outer Lake Shore Drive, a 17-mile stretch from Hollywood Avenue to 67th Street, in honor of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. The Chicago City Council is expected to vote on the name change on June 23.
Sometime after 1770, the Haitian-born trader traveled from New Orleans and up the Mississippi River and founded a thriving trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River, a place the Potawatomi native tribe called “Eschecagou.”
DuSable was the first permanent, non-indigenous settler of what would become the great metropolis of Chicago.
Native Americans were there long before. What do they say?
Chicago’s ongoing debate about renaming Lake Shore Drive is not really about street names. It’s about the need for Chicago, like our nation, to insist on a more honest accounting of history.