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Updated 6/25/2021 9:47 PM CHICAGO -- Chicago's city council voted Friday to change the name of Lake Shore Drive to the name of a Black man recognized as a key settler of the city. But the last surviving member of a rock group that wrote an iconic song about the scenic expressway thinks aldermen took a wrong exit ramp by renaming it Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive.   "I think it's a total atrocity," said Ted Aliotta, who was a drummer in the Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah trio. "Some individual's ego trip should not interfere with the most beautiful skyline of any city in the world."

Should Chicago Rename Lake Shore Drive For City's Black Founder? - Chicago, IL - KONKOL COLUMN: Lake Shore Drive by any name remains, as the Skip Haynes song says, a road like no other and no finer place to be.