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The Chicago City Council on Friday passed an ordinance to change the name of Outer Lake Shore Drive to honor Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. Du Sable, the city's Black founder, arrived in Chicago in ...
CHICAGO – City officials voted Friday to rename a segment of the iconic Lake Shore Drive for the first non-Indigenous permanent settler of Chicago: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. DuSable ...
Vehicles drive along Lake Shore Drive near North Avenue Beach on May 26, 2021, in Chicago. An aerial view of an empty South Lake Shore Drive seen from Maggie Daley Park during the coronavirus ...
FILE - In this Sunday, May 31, 2020 file photo, Northbound Lake Shore Drive sits empty of motorists traveling to downtown Chicago as police force traffic off at the 31st Street exit, as part of a ...
CHICAGO (AP) — 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. In a compromise, aldermen voted to ...
The mansion of Potter and Bertha Palmer, at 1350 N. Lake Shore Drive, circa 1900. The mansion was the largest private home in Chicago when it was built. Society flocked to live next to the ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- On Lake Shore Drive, there's a proposed widening project moving ahead. But some are saying not so fast. The $3 billion project would update a seven-mile stretch between Grand and ...
Activists and local politicians swarmed Chicago's Harry S. Truman College Thursday afternoon in protest of an open house for a project that would revamp Lake Shore Drive. The Illinois and Chicago ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Lake Shore Drive Bridge over the Chicago River is expected to close Monday for maintenance, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation. The full closure of the ...
CHICAGO (CBS) – A road rage incident, captured on video, nearly took a deadly turn on DuSable Lake Shore Drive and 66th Street Wednesday afternoon when one driver sideswiped another, and then ...
Their goal: to take a jackhammer to Lake Shore Drive and restore it to grassy parkland. They said that an eight-lane highway separating the people of Chicago from Lake Michigan violated Daniel ...