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Sun-Times file Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration on Wednesday unveiled an alternative plan to honor Jean Baptiste Point DuSable after a top mayoral aide told aldermen the mayor has “concerns” about renaming Outer Lake Shore Drive. On the eve of a showdown vote in the City Council’s Transportation Committee, Lightfoot’s legislative liaison Manny Perez told aldermen Lightfoot is prepared to invest $25 million to complete DuSable Park and create an exhibit honoring DuSable at the “most traveled part” of the downtown Riverwalk. During a series of virtual briefings, Perez told al...

click to enlarge John Greenfield Judging from contemporary accounts, Chicago founder Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the Black trading post proprietor for whom local African American leaders propose renaming Lake Shore Drive, was a virtuous, cultured, likable, and good-looking man. While there's little hard information available about DuSable's early life, according to tradition he was born in 1745 in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti. By the la...