I live in Chicago, where there’s an expressway called Lake Shore Drive. You know why it’s called that? Because it’s a drive that goes by the shore of a lake. Simple, easy to remember, and everybody shortens it to “LSD” when giving directions. It’s been called that since the ’40s and nobody’s had any complaints.
But a few summers ago, in 2021, the Chicago City Council decided to rename it after the area’s first non-indigenous settler. So now it’s called “Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive.” I refuse to call it that, and so do a lot of other Chicagoans. Not because we have anything against Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable. But because the new name is stupid.
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