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Route map: 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.
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Feb 12, 2019 · The road named for Wells-Barnett stretches from Grant Park west to the entrance to the Eisenhower Expressway. The City Council approved the name change last summer. Cook County...
In 1974, the Chicago home of Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett, at 3624 S. Martin Luther King Drive, was added to the National Register of Historic Places and named a National Historic Landmark.
Feb 11, 2019 · Ida B. Wells Drive is the city’s first downtown street named for African-American woman. On Monday, Chicago officials and community leaders convened in the 9th floor winter garden of...
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Her home on South Dr. Martin Luther King Drive is a National Historic Landmark. Wells was a tireless advocate for Chicago’s African American community. She was also a staunch supporter of Black women’s suffrage and a pioneer of the Black woman’s club movement.
