Lake Shore Drive renamed

[George K]

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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."

[Horace]

It’s about time. Lake Shore Drive? More like White Supremacy Drive.

[Mik]

How in the woken world can you HONOR the first non native genocidal oppressor settler?

[jon-nyc]

I was going to ask the same question. Can’t imagine anyone is going to stop calling it Lake Shore Drive.

[George K]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

Me too.

And the Tappan Zee bridge.

And the Pan Am building.

[Copper]

Yes, to all of those

And the Beatles landed at Idlewild

But I guess I have called it JFK

[jon-nyc]

Oh and the Triboro bridge

[jon-nyc]

@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.

[Catseye3]

Always with the complaints. Be glad they didn't rename it Lori Lightfoot Lake Shore Drive.

[George K]

@catseye3 said in Lake Shore Drive renamed:

Be glad they didn't rename it Lori Lightfoot Lake Shore Drive.

Give 'em 40 years.

[jon-nyc]

They’ll rename the Edens or the Dan Ryan after Harold Washington first.

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc said in Lake Shore Drive renamed:

Oh and the Triboro bridge

Redskins, dammit.