A plan to rename Lake Shore Drive to honor the Black man credited with founding Chicago is set for a key City Council vote Thursday, but it’s facing headwinds from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office. South Side Ald. David Moore hopes he has the votes in the council Transportation Committee to rename 17 miles of outer Lake Shore Drive — from Hollywood Avenue on the north to 67th Street on the south — for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a Black explorer of Haitian descent who’s credited as the area’s first nonnative settler for establishing a trading post along the Chicago River in 1779.
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