Lake Shore Drive renamed
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wrote on 26 Jun 2021, 21:45 last edited by
The Chicago City Council approved the renaming of Lake Shore Drive after a Black man considered by many to be the founder of Chicago.
Lake Shore Drive will now be named Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive to honor Chicago's first non-native settler. Lake Shore Drive was kept in the name as a compromise.
"They're trying to do the same thing that they did with the Willis Tower," said Otis Bryant, Chicago resident. "Honestly, everyone will still call it Lake Shore Drive."
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wrote on 26 Jun 2021, 21:52 last edited by
It’s about time. Lake Shore Drive? More like White Supremacy Drive.
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wrote on 26 Jun 2021, 22:52 last edited by
How in the woken world can you HONOR the first non native
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 11:29 last edited by
I was going to ask the same question. Can’t imagine anyone is going to stop calling it Lake Shore Drive.
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I was going to ask the same question. Can’t imagine anyone is going to stop calling it Lake Shore Drive.
wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 11:51 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Lake Shore Drive renamed:
I was going to ask the same question. Can’t imagine anyone is going to stop calling it Lake Shore Drive.
It's still the Sears Tower to me, and always will be.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 12:24 last edited by
Me too.
And the Tappan Zee bridge.
And the Pan Am building.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 13:11 last edited by
Yes, to all of those
And the Beatles landed at Idlewild
But I guess I have called it JFK
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 13:11 last edited by
Oh and the Triboro bridge
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 13:12 last edited by
@copper said in Lake Shore Drive renamed:
Yes, to all of those
And the Beatles landed at Idlewild
But I guess I have called it JFK
Yeah it’s JFK to me. But I was born after the renaming.
But it’ll always be Washington National. No disrespect to our 40th president, it’s just how I always knew it.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 13:16 last edited by
Always with the complaints. Be glad they didn't rename it Lori Lightfoot Lake Shore Drive.
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Always with the complaints. Be glad they didn't rename it Lori Lightfoot Lake Shore Drive.
wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 13:29 last edited by@catseye3 said in Lake Shore Drive renamed:
Be glad they didn't rename it Lori Lightfoot Lake Shore Drive.
Give 'em 40 years.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2021, 13:39 last edited by
They’ll rename the Edens or the Dan Ryan after Harold Washington first.
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wrote on 28 Jun 2021, 00:24 last edited by