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Chicago aldermen making a wrong turn on proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive Lake Shore Drive is between the skyscrapers and the lake By John Ruberry Concrete mountains rearing up, throwing shadows just about five Sometimes you can smell the green if your mind is feeling fine There ain’t no finer place to be, than running Lake Shore Drive And there’s no peace of mind, or place you see, than riding on Lake Shore Drive.” As I’ve stated many times before Chicago is a city in decline. Decades of rampant corruption and fiscal malfeasance, particularly with woefully unfunded public worker...

Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times In reporting on the plight of landlords due to the moratorium on evictions, David Roeder seems not to have talked to any tenants’ organizations. He also did not note that the statewide moratorium set to expire at the end of this month supplements a national moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through June 30. Roeder says the moratorium means landlords “shoulder a strange burden of giving away their product for free.” But there’s a big difference between canceling a debt and placing a freeze on the most drastic recourse for cred...

Published April 30, 2021 • Updated on April 30, 2021 at 1:55 pm Charlie Wojciechowski A proposal to rename a stretch of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive is one step closer to reality after a City Council committee voted to approve the measure in a meeting that was contentious and at times profane. The Chicago City Council Committee on Transportation met Thursday to consider an ordinance to rename a portion of Lake Shore Drive as "Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Drive." Don't miss local breaking news and weather! Download our mobile app for iOS or Android — and sign up for alerts. The ordin...

According to the language of the initial ordinance, proposed in 2019, Lake Shore Drive would be renamed "Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Drive" from Hollywood Boulevard, located in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side, to the South 71st Street merge on the South Side. Moore later agreed to limit the proposal to Outer Lake Shore Drive from Hollywood to 67th, just impacting the city's harbors and not changing the addresses of businesses or residences along LSD. Point du Sable arrived at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1790 and established a property near what is now Michigan Ave...

UpdatedFri, Apr 30, 2021 at 9:25 am CT Replies(190) Chicago's Lake Shore Drive was changed to DuSable Drive after an unanimous vote in the City Council on Thursday. ( Scott Olson/Getty Images) CHICAGO — Seventeen miles of Lake Shore Drive is set to be renamed after Chicago's first non-native settler, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. The City Council committee of transportation voted unanimously for the proposition Thursday, but some aldermen wonder if Mayor Lori Lightfoot will veto the change when it goes before the entire City Council. The expected change will rename a portion of outer Lake Sh...