Two years after a South Side alderman introduced an ordinance to rebrand the landmark reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Lake Shore Drive to honor DuSable because he was upset he didn’t hear the Black founder of Chicago mentioned during a river boat tour, the City Council on Friday ended months of racially charged debate by adopting a compromise to make it so.
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 front man did not respond to questions about how long it would take to change the signs.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...opposed Alderman David Moore’s initial plan to rebrand the iconic lakefront ribbon of concrete "DuSable Drive" on the grounds it would make the city tougher to market. But she got behind the late "DuSable Lake Shore Drive" deal rather than risk taking a total loss in the 50-member council.
Moore and other DuSable backers agreed to the compromise instead of trying to hold together a majority in the face of pushback from the mayor and opponents on the council, or risking Lightfoot using her first veto to further impede them.
Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, 35th, said the lack of proper honor for Black leaders has a harmful impact on Black children. Naming the road for him "is a small but important step to addressing racial injustice," Ramirez-Rosa said.
The protracted street rebranding fight came as Chicago faces many pressing problems, from rising
But in a city where symbolic representation has long been a measure of political strength, Moore and supporters of the change saw winning as a point of pride for Black Chicagoans and others who think DuSable hasn’t gotten his due. Capitulating to opponents would have been another indignity in what they see as long-running underappreciation of African Americans’ contributions.
