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Major east–west street in downtown Chicago, Illinois
- Ida B. Wells Drive (formerly Congress Parkway) is a major east–west street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It runs east from the Jane Byrne Interchange, where it meets Interstate 90 (I-90), I-94 and I-290.
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Ida B. Wells Drive (formerly Congress Parkway) is a major east–west street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It runs east from the Jane Byrne Interchange, where it meets Interstate 90 (I-90), I-94 and I-290.
In the summer of 2018, Chicago City Council passed an ordinance to rename Congress Parkway after Ida B. Wells Drive to honor the civil rights leader’s remarkable legacy of social and political heroism, making it the first downtown Chicago street named after a woman of color.
In February 2019, Congress Parkway in downtown Chicago was renamed as Ida B. Wells Drive, the first street in the city to be named after a woman and person of color. Michelle Duster, Wells' great-granddaughter, led a successful campaign to raise funds to for a monument to Ida B. Wells, to be erected in Chicago sometime in 2019.
Aug 19, 2018 · By Megan McKinney. More than seven decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, Ida B. Wells did the same on a “Whites Only” train car in Tennessee. It took three men to eject her from her seat, and one received a painful hand bite in the process.
Ida B. Wells House. Built in 1889 at what is now 3624 South King Drive, Ida B. Wells and her husband, journalist and attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett, lived in this stone, Romanesque Revival-styled home from 1919 to 1930. Today, it is both a Chicago Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.
Feb 11, 2019 · Also known by her married name, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an iconic investigative journalist who crusaded against the racist lynching of black men, pushed for women’s right to vote and started...
Feb 12, 2019 · Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching crusader, journalist, civil rights activist and suffragist — who could have been killed because of any one of those pursuits — has finally gotten her due. On Monday, the street once known as Congress Parkway officially became Ida B. Wells Drive.
