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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s City Council voted Friday to change the name of Lake Shore...

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.

Chicagos Lake Shore Drive renamed to honor Black settler June 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 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 v...

Updated 6/25/2021 9:47 PM CHICAGO -- Chicagos 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 its a total atrocity," said Ted Aliotta, who was a drummer in the Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah trio. "Some indivi...

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Renaming Lake Shore Drive for the founder of Chicago would better reflect the city as it is.

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Changing the addresses of the four museums could cost the institutions a significant amount of money and complicate their efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said.