No street signs yet, but Google already has put Ida B. Wells Drive on the map
Posted August 01, 2018 11:00 pm
Though the city's street signs will need more time to catch up, Google Maps has already swapped out a section of Congress Parkway to reflect its new name: Ida B. Wells Drive.
The Chicago City Council voted last week to rename Congress Parkway in honor of Wells, an anti-lynching crusader and civil rights activist who died in Chicago in 1931.
Though the change doesn't officially take effect for 30 days after Sept. 20, when the ordinance is scheduled to be published, that didn't stop Google. Still, the online know-it-all didn't get it entirely right; it still has portions of the road remaining "Congress Parkway," while the stretch from Buckingham Fountain to State Street bears the new name.
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