Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive (LSD) is a mostly freeway-standard expressway running parallel with and next to Lake Michigan through Chicago, Illinois, USA. Except for the northernmost part, it is designated as part of U.S. Highway 41.

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Freeway - Expressway - Lake Michigan - Chicago - Illinois - USA - U.S. Highway 41

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The downtown part originally opened as Leif Erickson Drive in 1937 (and was also called Field Boulevard); it was renamed Lake Shore Drive in 1946.

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Leif Erickson - 1937 - 1946

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Plans were made to extend Lake Shore Drive farther north through Rogers Park and into Evanston. Those plans were abandoned as a result of protests against cutting neighborhoods off from the lake. Specifically, Rogers Park voters rejected the extension in a referendum in November 2004. Massive white boulders along the lakefront at Loyola University Chicago still remain from the original expansion project.

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Rogers Park - Evanston - Referendum - November 2004 - Loyola University Chicago

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