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Pity the casual visitor to Chicago who spots DuSable Park on a map and decides to check out the parcel of land prominently situated on the city’s
DuSable Park has been a park in name only since Mayor Harold Washington dedicated the site, at the confluence of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, in 1987. Wednesday, a design team was selected to bring the vision to life.
Chicago officials voted Friday to rename part of Lake Shore Drive for the city's first non-Indigenous permanent settler, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable.
Chicago has to deal with its own racial reckoning. A key support of changing the name says that ‘will be a start and will help heal some of the wounds.’
"We do have the votes. ... That’s why there’s all of these moves to try and … deter our colleagues from their first inclination," Ald. Sophia King said, calling the more costly alternatives that have been suggested "kind of insulting."