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Heather Cherone | May 26, 2021 9:37 pm Opponents of a plan to rename 17 miles of Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, Chicago’s first permanent non-Indigenous settler, blocked a vote on the measure Wednesday, enraging supporters of the plan, who called the move racist.  First proposed by Ald. David Moore (17th Ward) in 2019, the measure gained new life amid the nationwide reckoning with systemic racism prompted by the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in May 2020 and the widespread protests that followed.  Thanks to our sponsors: But Ald. Brian...

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.

A vote on a proposal to rename a stretch of Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive was delayed in City Council Wednesday.

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. But at an event just hours before the committee's vote, Mayor Lori Lightfoot presented an alternate proposal to honor DuS...