Lake Shore Drive renamed for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable – Chicago Tribune*

The vote was 33-15, with “no” votes coming from 12 white and three Latino aldermen. The ordinance calls for the renaming to happen immediately, but a city spokesman did not respond to questions about how long it will take to change the signs.
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BB
4 years ago

And the crime and mayhem continues! No sane reason to go to Chicago anymore!

nixit
4 years ago

“Honey, take Halsted downtown. DuSable is backed up again due to police activity. Jean Baptiste is covered in bullet casings.”

Ex Illini
4 years ago

It will always be Lake Shore Drive. Always.

debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  Ex Illini

No it won’t. The city of chicago no longer belongs to your intersectional identity.

It’s just too bad they renamed it after a colonizer capitalist who occupied indigenous lands and nearly extincted every fur bearing creature in the upper midwest. Beavers almost went extinct because of this ‘fur trader’. This man was a monster by today’s standards. Why do we celebrate this?

Last edited 4 years ago by debtsor
rick1099
4 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

He was black so cannot do wrong. You are a racist, that’s your answer

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