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Any two aldermen can move to "defer and publish," which delays action for one meeting without explanation. The move is likely to start with downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins.
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.
Ald. David Moore said the Lightfoot administration offered substitutes, such as renaming the Dan Ryan Expressway. That had "racial overtones," he said. "Keep it on the South Side. South of like 35th Street. Let’s be honest. Keep it in the Black community," Moore told the Sun-Times.
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...
Phase One was the creation of a path over the Ohio Street underpass and Grand Avenue onto upper Lake Shore Drive, then crossing over Illinois and ending north of Ogden Slip. Phase Two was the construction of a 16-foot-wide bridge from the north end of the Chicago River Bridge, adjacent to Lake Shore Drive and over DuSable Park to just north of Ogden Slip Phase Three was the final piece of the puzzle for the project that began in 2014. The other curving spines of the path have been done since 2018. A new ramp for cyclists down to Navy Pier opened three months ahead of the ribbon-cutting on Mon...