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2021-06-27 -Great Cultural Revolution

Chicago's Lake Shore Drive renamed for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable

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Posted by Fred 2021-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

Posted by Spong Omung8532 2021-06-27 03:10|| 2021-06-27 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't wait for the yet to be named aboriginal tribe demand it be renamed for them. You know before the whites and blacks who showed up and took the place from them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-27 09:34|| 2021-06-27 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Good to see Chicago taking on the really important problems head-on...

(/sarc)

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-27 09:45|| 2021-06-27 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 So it ruins a great 1960s song about driving on LSD (Lake Shore Drive).

Posted by 3dc 2021-06-27 12:17|| 2021-06-27 12:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Beetlejuice Boulevard? (photo pls)

Posted by Lumpy Thraigum2998 2021-06-27 12:27|| 2021-06-27 12:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I see this as a positive step for the City of Chicago and look forward to the great improvement in math and reading scores that it will bring.

Posted by SteveS 2021-06-27 13:02|| 2021-06-27 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 ^--- not to mention "Peace In Our Time!"

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-27 13:04|| 2021-06-27 13:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable[n 1]; before 1750[n 2] – 28 August 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the "Founder of Chicago".[7] A school, museum, harbor, park, bridge, and road have been named in his honor. The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is identified as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-27 13:15|| 2021-06-27 13:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Point du Sable left Chicago in 1800. He sold his property ... and moved to the Missouri River valley

From Potawatomi dream ground
to Capone's whore-stable,
for years equality's petridish
and hellhole unstable.
Maybe he knew, which way it blew
even as early as 1802.
"Fok dis shit!" He said,
left for Missouri, that DuSable.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-27 14:29|| 2021-06-27 14:29|| Front Page Top

#10 It's no joke for business owners who have to have all of their stationary reprinted.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-27 16:31|| 2021-06-27 16:31|| Front Page Top

#11 My name on that shitehole? Why don't you just name drive-by shootings after me as well?

Posted by Jean DuSable 2021-06-27 16:35|| 2021-06-27 16:35|| Front Page Top

#12 What about his appropriation of indigenous peoples land?? Perhaps it is closer to outright theft! He should be cancelled not honored.

Posted by illeagle 2021-06-27 16:39|| 2021-06-27 16:39|| Front Page Top

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