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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?
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When Ayanna Williams-Jones sees a problem, she solves it.
With the help of two assistants, Williams-Jones, who also is a mother of six, manages a nail salon, entrepreneurship consulting firm, popular podcast, rental homes and, soon, a publishing company that will release her new book.
She recently moved her nail salon, Pedicure & Shoes 2 Go, out of downtown Detroit to a new space east of downtown on Jefferson Avenue. I know that community is really big on supporting their own and we wanted to be part of the community, Williams-Jones said.
Customers walk up the stairs to find chairs with pedicure stations lined up, a few stations for nails, a massage room in the back and an empty space for designer shoes a unique offering at her former locations that will come soon.