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Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday released an alternative plan to honor Jean Baptiste Point DuSable in an attempt to fend off a competing proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive for the Haitian explorer. The mayor’s plan calls for $40 million toward developing DuSable Park on the Near North Side, renaming the Riverwalk downtown for DuSable and creating an annual festival in his honor. Lightfoot ...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot released an alternative plan to honor Jean Baptiste Point DuSable on Thursday in an attempt to fend off a competing proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive.

Aldermen used a parliamentary maneuver to temporarily block a vote on a plan to rename Lake Shore Drive for the Black explorer credited with founding Chicago.

After much rancor, renaming Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable now step away from reality John Byrne, Chicago Tribune © Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune A statue of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable along North Michigan Avenue in 2009. There were accusations of racism, concerns over address changes and an alternate plan pushed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But after the noise quieted Thursday, Chicago moved a step closer to renaming the iconic Lake Shore Drive to...

The city is poised to tear down the historic Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home at 5128 S. Michigan Ave., an early 20th century settlement house named for the former slave who was the first African American ever to publish a book of poetry, and third American woman ever to do so. The home was established by suffragettes in the early 1900s, to aid African-American women coming from Down South during the Great Migration.  Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times When Ariajo “Joanne” Tate and her husband bought...