Posted on 12/26/2018 10:15:28 AM PST by C19fan
A member of a prominent Chicago political family running for mayor suggested that an expressway on the city’s South Side be renamed after former President Barack Obama, but the family of the man it’s currently named after isn’t happy.
The Dan Ryan Expressway, also designated as Interstate 90/94, is named for an ex-Cook County board president and his grandson, Daniel B. Ryan III, is hurt that Bill Daley would suggest a name switch without checking with the Ryan family first, the Chicago Sun-Times reported this week.
“Why would you take an honor away from one man to honor another?” asked Ryan III, 69. “Our family has been honored by this for 56 years, and we’d like to keep it that way.”
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Too bad the family even had to speak up. Naming it after Obama is stupid.
The road to islam.
I love to see those. It tells me what area to avoid in an unfamiliar area.
Why? He didn’t build that!
Take a street in one of the most crime-ridden parts of Chicago and name it after him or better yet, a housing project.
Is paved with the bodies of infidels.
it’s a participation trophy
IMO the name should be changed to Obama’s. Illinois deserves to be reminded of this horse’s @$$ in perpetuity.
Chicago is supposed to be broke. Is this guy going to pay to change the name out of his own pocket?
They way leftist morons think!..... If you’re gonna name it after Obama the leftist moron muslim phony arse POS president ....name it ZERO!
Great idea!
The Obama/Cabrini-Green Housing Development
Don’t know about Ryan, but renaming it after Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota baby is not renaming it after an honorable man...er...whatever.
Shouldn’t vote for a black President just to have a black President either.
The B.O. Expressway
Racist white guy vs the ‘One’. No real issue Chicago unless you are racist!
UPMC must have written a bigger check.
Well, you don’t really get that beneft if I it’s a freeway/expressway. San Diego solved the MLK Boulevard issue by naming a freeway after him (the locals don’t call it that, racists that they are, they refer to it as the 94). That way residents/businesses don’t have to deal with changing addresses, etc.
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