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Lake Shore Drive may be renamed and in the meantime every Chicagoan now knows the name Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. It was not always that way. These new books are an education, about the Tulsa Race Massacre, about Juneteenth, about Black relations with police.
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.
"I don’t want to define space, I want to support it." Gonzalo Guzman If you talk to the artist Faheem Majeed for more than a few minutes, it's likely that he'll mention the South Side Community Art Center, the storied cultural institution where he served as executive director from 2005 to 2011. In some ways, he's never left, as his art practice continues to explore the institution's legacy and contemporary significance. It has certainly never left him. The Ce...