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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...

Should Chicago Rename Lake Shore Drive For City's Black Founder? - Chicago, IL - KONKOL COLUMN: Lake Shore Drive by any name remains, as the Skip Haynes song says, a road like no other and no finer place to be.