Lake Shore Drive - Definition and Overview

Lake Shore Drive is an expressway running parallel with and next to Lake Michigan through Chicago, Illinois, USA. Originally opened as Leif Erickson Drive in 1937, it was renamed Lake Shore Drive in 1946. Plans were made to extend Lake Shore Drive farther north through Rogers Park and into Evanston. 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. "Lake Shore Drive" is also the name (and subject) of a 1970s song by Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah.

Locations of note

• Field Museum of Natural History
• Museum of Science and Industry
• Shedd Aquarium
• Museum of Surgical Science
• Adler Planetarium
• Navy Pier
• McCormick Place
• Soldier Field
• Northerly Island
• Grant Park
• Jackson Park
• Lincoln Park
• Burnham Park
• Hyde Park
• Streeterville
• Boystown
• Gold Coast

External link

• 1997 oil painting by Yvonne Jacquette (http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartdetail.asp?wid=53974)