Is it one near your home? In another state? In another country? One of my favorite streets — DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Chicago — made the new list of “71 Most Beautiful Streets in the World” according to Architectural Digest. “With the towering skyline on one side and the shore of Lake Michigan on the other, DuSable Lake Shore Drive is the perfect way to take in the Windy City,” the list states. “Grant Park, Museum Campus, and Soldier Field are set along the expressway and the 18-mile Lakefront Trail runs parallel to the busy street for those who wish to explore on foot.
” Every time I drive it — even after hundreds of treks — I pause to appreciate the spectacular view of the skyline to the west and Lake Michigan to the east. It’s a paved and popular juxtaposition between man-made marvels and natural beauty. “There ain't no road just like it, anywhere I found.
Running south on Lake Shore Drive, heading into town. Just slippin' on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound,” according to the song “Lake Shore Drive” by the Chicago-based group Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, released in 1973. (On a weird side note, I’m writing today’s column on Saturday while listening to WXRT, 93.
1-FM, and its weekly “Saturday Morning Flashback” feature. Just as I wrote the previous paragraph about that song, it randomly played on the radio. Coincidence? Maybe.
) From the intersection of Jeffery Drive/Marquette Drive on the city’s south side to the Hollywood Avenue/S.
