CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The effort to rename Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptist Point DuSable comes up again Wednesday in the Chicago City Council.
The mayor offered another compromise: DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
Alderman David Moore, who’s behind the renaming ordinance, was at first entertaining the idea, but later told the Sun Times his mind was changed and he wants a vote Wednesday after he heard from many opposed to that idea and opposed to the political game playing.
The Mayor acknowledged the back-and-forth during the reopening of the DuSable Museum over the weekend.
"And I want to thank David Moore for his advocacy and leadership to make sure we do honor Point DuSable, but we have to move; it's not just a name, it's got to be more," Mayor Lightfoot said.
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She’s offered a number of other ideas - a park, the riverwalk, a festival, monuments, at considerable cost - anything rather than renaming Lake Shore Drive. Another idea, from Alderman Brendan Riley, was to rename Millennium Park for DuSable.
But Moore believes the votes are there for the original renaming idea; perhaps not, though, to override a mayoral veto.
And anything could happen in the City Council.
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