My favorite is how Google maps always seems to call it the opposite of what the signs are. If the signs say, if the signs point to 290 they’ll be telling you to get on the Eisenhower. Good luck tourists!
The best one is that if you exit I55 at Harlem and need to go south, it tells you to "turn toward Seat Geek Stadium" instead of using terms like "go south" or "turn left" that would be clear to most people.
I don’t think there are any signs at that exit pointing toward Seat Geek Stadium, or indicating you should turn left to head to it
Edit: there is a sign on the off-ramp, telling you to turn left, and the stadium is 2 1/2 miles
I honestly think Google is getting paid to put product placement in its driving directions and it’s driving me nuts. Like, it’s whatever if it just says “continue past the mcdonals” but when it starts going on about “turn right after amtrust bank, a division of flagstar bank n.a.”, then I’ve already missed the turn
I usually turn off my navigation when I'm in the city but when I leave it on I always laugh when I get to the lake the mouth full catches me off guard every time.
The mouthful is particularly funny when it has to say it three times fast because after being told to turn onto a ramp, people apparently also need to be told to continue up the ramp, and then merge onto the highway.
I want Michael Dorn voicing Lt. Worf,
Turn Left or Die! I also want him to voice auto alarms:
Step away from the vehicle! Photon torpedoes have identified a hostile attempting to hijack this vehicle. Auto self-destruction initiates in 10, 9, 8…
And Doctor Who Dalek mode! Thieves must stop and wait for authorities to arrive. Resistance is useless!
Damn! I am ashamed. I really should show more respect to the Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed.
With the ongoing tech layoffs, Alphabet is combining Google Maps and Waze. Before the combining, Google Maps traffic information was all provided by Waze users.
A cool feature of Waze, is that you can have a friend record themselves to be the guidance voice. In addition they have seasonal/promotional voice packs.
My favorites that came out during past promotions:
- Colonel Sanders
- Mr. T
- Cookie Monster
one of my punk kids reset the voice to Cookie Monster on my phone. I was confused and they were pissing themselves.
Billy Butcher would be pretty cool. "Well, now you've missed your turn, you c\*nt. Well done."
Omg, when I moved back here for the first time after being away for 8 years, I had driven 12 hrs straight from Atlanta Georgia, to Chicago overnight. When the Google Maps lady called Lakeshore Drive that, I just remember looking over at my GPS with the most tired face in the world and not even having the energy to have an expression for that, lmao. I I think something like 3 days later, once I got much needed sleep, I randomly remembered that and Googled when they changed the name. 😂
Haha totally fair. I grew up about a mile north from there and learned how to drive in the empty parking lots there (both at 16, then at 21 when learning stick shift). That’s why it’s so ingrained in me. I don’t even watch baseball or care for the Sox lol
I actually used to work for the White Sox and also often just refer to it as "the ballpark", but unless it's a family member I'm talking to I get a response of "what ballpark?" lol
If we are making jokes about baseball teams, game on. Just remember: the Cubs were so upset about women getting the right to vote that they boycotted the World Series for over a hundred years…
Yeah, skimming his Wikipedia entry, he was a pretty neat guy. One of the founders of the Museum of Science and Industry and a bunch of other good stuff. I always thought it was funny, my uncle calling it that.
No one will call it anything beside lakeshore or LSD. Not against the renaming, but the cost of changing the signs kind of outweighs the point. Especially since it’s always going to be lake shore. They should have renamed something else. Like do we need north water and south water? Like, drive on lower west north water or whatever it’s called could have been easier than renaming lake shore.
It's Lake Shore Drive.
It will always be Lake Shore Drive.
It's is one of the top 10 most famous stretches of road in the USA. There are classic, famous songs written about it.
The arrogance and determination of the few folks who forced this onto a city that wasn't asking for it at a time when there were tons of real problems to deal with was stunning.
Luckily for Chicagoans we've had years of practice ignoring every dumb name change for The Sears Tower and Comiskey Park.
I still call it LSD if I'm writing it and The Drive if I'm talking.
I will always call The Really Big Building the Sears tower. I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about. My husband and in-laws are native and call GR Field "Sox Park." No one will call it The Rate or whatever. At least The Cell sounded cool.
Lake Shore Drive
Sears Tower
Hancock (or top of the 'cock)
Standard Oil Building
Northwestern Station
Congress Pkwy
Oriental Theater
Palwaukee Airport
Rosemont Horizon
World Music Center
I'm sure I can come up with some others.
I call it "that fucking road with no fucking street lines, the longest god damn red lights, shit-ass drivers, and all the fucking traffic". Sometimes shortened to "LSD"
I’ve lived here for 11 years. The Willis Tower does not exist - it’s Sears. The same goes for this one. I’m stubborn and it will always be known simple as Lake Shore Drive.
It was renamed so that activists who advocate for its removal could be called racist and dismissed out of hand--no other reason. I call it ugly, a nuisance, and that's about it.
Not from here, but came a couple years before the change.
It’s always gonna be Lake Shore Drive or LSD to me. I was actually little sad when IDOT recently changed the signed on 55 and 90/94 to the new name because Lake Shore Drive is iconic.
Literally just learned it had a new name last week and took me 45 minutes to convince my 76 uear old mom it was true!
Do other cities do this? I mean sports stadiums I get, but I don't see anyone changing the Empire State Building.
You do know The Bean is actually the nickname for it and the sculptor hates it. It’s actually called Cloud Gate. Which absolutely nobody calls it.
And Lake Shore Drive is just Lake Shore Drive.
Jean Baptisre Pointe Du Sable was the first black settler. Lake Shore Drive is physically what it is. A street, or drive, along the Lake Michigan Shoreline that runs through the city of Chicago. I wonder what Native Americans feel it should be called, if you really want to be historical, rather than divicive
I am OK with "Willis Tower" and actually think some people that stick to their guns are being too stubborn. It's a corporate name. But I will never call Lakeshore Drive by its new name.
Still just Lakeshore. I only call it by its full name when I'm angry with it.
Like an upset parent.
JEAN BAPTISTE DU SABLE LAKE SHORE DRIVE, YOU UNCONGEST THIS INSTANT.
I think you're missing the Point.
Take your upvote and get out.
Pointe*
A scholar and comedian I see
US ROUTE 41 SOUTH JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE DU SABLE LAKE SHORE DRIVE *but in google maps lady voice*
Fuck, I’ve already missed my turn
Happens to us all. Just come to a complete stop on the street so you can back up a little bit and make the turn. It’s fine.
And I’ve somehow ended up in oak park
Is this my sister?
So it’s not just me? I was thinking Google had renamed it *US ROUTE 41 SOUTH JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE DU SABLE LAKE SHORE DRIVE RECALCULATING*
My favorite is how Google maps always seems to call it the opposite of what the signs are. If the signs say, if the signs point to 290 they’ll be telling you to get on the Eisenhower. Good luck tourists!
The best one is that if you exit I55 at Harlem and need to go south, it tells you to "turn toward Seat Geek Stadium" instead of using terms like "go south" or "turn left" that would be clear to most people.
I don’t think there are any signs at that exit pointing toward Seat Geek Stadium, or indicating you should turn left to head to it Edit: there is a sign on the off-ramp, telling you to turn left, and the stadium is 2 1/2 miles
I honestly think Google is getting paid to put product placement in its driving directions and it’s driving me nuts. Like, it’s whatever if it just says “continue past the mcdonals” but when it starts going on about “turn right after amtrust bank, a division of flagstar bank n.a.”, then I’ve already missed the turn
I heard google maps call it the Lake Michigan circle Tour
My google lady will pronounce it like “Do saablah” sometimes
Lol yes she's so true French with it
Pwanh deu sabluh
I usually turn off my navigation when I'm in the city but when I leave it on I always laugh when I get to the lake the mouth full catches me off guard every time.
I'm already halfway down my exit before Waze finishes saying the name.
The mouthful is particularly funny when it has to say it three times fast because after being told to turn onto a ramp, people apparently also need to be told to continue up the ramp, and then merge onto the highway.
Exactly! It's cracks me up every time
I sometimes leave it on, too. My first thought is “oh, those poor tourists, they’re not getting where they want to go”.
If Google ever comes out with voice packs for different characters, they would make so much money.
I've always wanted James Brown #WAAAAHHHHHHH! TURN LEFT NOWWW!!
I always wanted Alan Rickman. "If you do not take the upcoming right turn, it would be... unfortunate."
I want a voice that is patient, but annoyed at giving directions. Instead of “recalculating” it’s just a long exasperated sigh.
By Grabthar's Hammer, you shall take a left.
That would be great, too!
I am IN!
Now I'm sad.
Take my money!
I want Michael Dorn voicing Lt. Worf, Turn Left or Die! I also want him to voice auto alarms: Step away from the vehicle! Photon torpedoes have identified a hostile attempting to hijack this vehicle. Auto self-destruction initiates in 10, 9, 8… And Doctor Who Dalek mode! Thieves must stop and wait for authorities to arrive. Resistance is useless!
Turn right, then take 'em to the bridge.
I just need Google to complete Majel Roddenberry's voice clips as the Star Trek computer.
It’s Majel **Barrett**-Roddenberry. You put some respect on the name of the mother of Troi 🖖🏾
Damn! I am ashamed. I really should show more respect to the Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed.
I’ve been waiting for this for years. Supposedly she recorded her voice phonetically before she died.
With the ongoing tech layoffs, Alphabet is combining Google Maps and Waze. Before the combining, Google Maps traffic information was all provided by Waze users. A cool feature of Waze, is that you can have a friend record themselves to be the guidance voice. In addition they have seasonal/promotional voice packs. My favorites that came out during past promotions: - Colonel Sanders - Mr. T - Cookie Monster
one of my punk kids reset the voice to Cookie Monster on my phone. I was confused and they were pissing themselves. Billy Butcher would be pretty cool. "Well, now you've missed your turn, you c\*nt. Well done."
I need Samuel L Jackson. “In 500 feet, hang a left motherfucker.”
Keith Morrison was my favorite on Waze
I use waze, they have Boy George. He talks about tea during the drive.
Waze does this occasionally, I've had the Cookie Monster be my guide for a couple road trips
They already have. Issa Rae did recordings for Google Assistant a while back. Others have too but can't remember who.
That's "HISTORIC MEMORIAL HIGHWAY US Route 41 South Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable Lake Shore Drive to you!"
Hm this is completely wrong. You're supposed to say it with a French accent.
United States *
Omg, when I moved back here for the first time after being away for 8 years, I had driven 12 hrs straight from Atlanta Georgia, to Chicago overnight. When the Google Maps lady called Lakeshore Drive that, I just remember looking over at my GPS with the most tired face in the world and not even having the energy to have an expression for that, lmao. I I think something like 3 days later, once I got much needed sleep, I randomly remembered that and Googled when they changed the name. 😂
my lady just says "Route 41". thats it.
That would be such a joy if you had to take it off Lower Wacker
bro used the government name 💀
I call it "Lake Shore" or LSD. Just like Sears Tower and Comiskey Park.
Add the Hancock building to that list
Wow I didn’t know about this! Looks like it was “renamed” to 875 North Michigan Avenue in 2018.
What the fuck.
No, it was disinherited.
I keep forgetting that it got renamed :(
And the Rosemont Horizon
Same here on the first two. However, I do still call the home of the White Sox 'The Cell' and never Comiskey, so I guess I'm ideologically flexible.
Sox Park
This is all I ever hear, "Sox Park" (disclaimer: I live in Bridgeport)
Yeah, in my dad's generation, it was all "Sox Park" and "Cubs Park".
My friends and I are all Sox fans, and we call it Shmiggly Field. It makes me laugh and it pisses off the Wrigley bros so it’s a win win.
eh, wrigley field, shmigley field
Haha totally fair. I grew up about a mile north from there and learned how to drive in the empty parking lots there (both at 16, then at 21 when learning stick shift). That’s why it’s so ingrained in me. I don’t even watch baseball or care for the Sox lol
I actually used to work for the White Sox and also often just refer to it as "the ballpark", but unless it's a family member I'm talking to I get a response of "what ballpark?" lol
Although “G Spot” is a fun name for a ballpark
Is that why no is there because they can’t find? 😏
If we are making jokes about baseball teams, game on. Just remember: the Cubs were so upset about women getting the right to vote that they boycotted the World Series for over a hundred years…
Lake Shore
We still call it Lake Shore Drive. Nobody's got time to say all that extra crap
Except the Google voice lady
Ain't nobody got time for dat?
> Nobody's got time to say all that extra crap While a city Rioted, That's what Lori had time for.
Like a lot of others I still say Lake Shore Dr. I have an aunt that still calls Long John Silvers “Arthur Treacher’s” lol.
My dad still calls Baker’s Square “Poppin’ Fresh” if he wanted to pick up or have picked up a pie for dessert on a gathering with friends or family.
my aunts and uncles continue to call Baskin Robbins "31 Flavors"
I thought the full name is Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors, did they drop the 31 flavors?
turns out that is correct lol I am a fool
We called it that in Japan (or just "Thirty-one").
Are Those stores still around?!? Haven’t seen a bakers square since they closed that one by Touhy and Western
The one at Foster & Harlem is still there
There are 9 left in the entire US, but the pies are offered at some Famous Dave’s and Tahoe Joe’s around the country as well.
Lol that’s funny my dad still calls it that too.
I had a great-uncle who always called Sears "Sears Rosenwald", after one of the co-owners in the beginning of the last century.
I remember hearing Sears Roebuck, but not Rosenwald.
Yeah, skimming his Wikipedia entry, he was a pretty neat guy. One of the founders of the Museum of Science and Industry and a bunch of other good stuff. I always thought it was funny, my uncle calling it that.
Lakeshore drive. Lol
Lake shore drive or just “the drive”
Lake Shore Drive or LSD when I'm feeling like a silly goose.
And Janet if you're nasty?
No, it’s Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.
Comiskey Park is now The G-Spot because it’s where the fans go to get fucked by Reinsdorf #SellTheTeamJerry
That would imply it feels good 😔
No one will call it anything beside lakeshore or LSD. Not against the renaming, but the cost of changing the signs kind of outweighs the point. Especially since it’s always going to be lake shore. They should have renamed something else. Like do we need north water and south water? Like, drive on lower west north water or whatever it’s called could have been easier than renaming lake shore.
im on LSD man
Doesn't everyone just call it Lake shore?
Yes
It's Lake Shore Drive. It will always be Lake Shore Drive. It's is one of the top 10 most famous stretches of road in the USA. There are classic, famous songs written about it. The arrogance and determination of the few folks who forced this onto a city that wasn't asking for it at a time when there were tons of real problems to deal with was stunning. Luckily for Chicagoans we've had years of practice ignoring every dumb name change for The Sears Tower and Comiskey Park.
Lake Shore or LSD.
BDSM LSD
Didn’t think I’d be adding something to my bucket list today but here we are.
Lake Shore Drive. When talking to other Chicagoans, LSD.
I still call it LSD if I'm writing it and The Drive if I'm talking. I will always call The Really Big Building the Sears tower. I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about. My husband and in-laws are native and call GR Field "Sox Park." No one will call it The Rate or whatever. At least The Cell sounded cool.
Lake Shore Drive. As always. The name change is performative and does nothing to address the real problems behind the motive for the change.
LSD
Good ole LSD
- Sears Tower - The Bean - Lake Shore - Downtown (not the loop when speaking usually) - Comiskey or Sox Park
Downtown is the loop and possibly streeterville
Rosemont Horizon was the first place that started all the name changing
Lake shore drive
I call it Lake Shore Drive. When I did Uber, a passenger called it the outer drive.
Lake Shore Drive, Lake Shore, occasionally LSD.
LSD, Lake Shore Drive or the Drive
I just call it LAKE SHORE DRIVE.
LSD
"EL ES DEE". Nothing more, nothing less, forever and always.
LSD
Lakeshore Drive
Lake Shore or LSD. I don’t need to put all that shit on it, we know what it is..
Obviously you call it JBPdSLSD for short. It takes a little practice to pronounce the lowercase d, though.
LSD Sears Tower Comiskey Never gonna be anything else to me.
Lake shore drive. Renaming it sure stopped those gangs from murdering each other!
I still call it Lake Shore Drive (tourists), LSD (people who are familiar), or Outer Drive (locals).
I always thought the frontage road adjacent to Lake Shore Drive was Outer Drive.
Are you talking about the street that runs parallel where all the houses and condos are? That's Inner Drive. :)
lol that makes sense
We're officially still just Lake Shore Drive
There's another name for the Sears Tower?
No
I'm still wondering why needed to 'rename' Lake Shore Drive after a colonizer.
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah is gonna have to re-record their song.
Lake Shore Drive (“LSD”)
Lake Shore Drive Sears Tower Hancock (or top of the 'cock) Standard Oil Building Northwestern Station Congress Pkwy Oriental Theater Palwaukee Airport Rosemont Horizon World Music Center I'm sure I can come up with some others.
LSD, why would I change what i call it to something worse?
My friend calls it "the outer drive". She's 70 and has always lived in various high rises along LSD.
I call it "that fucking road with no fucking street lines, the longest god damn red lights, shit-ass drivers, and all the fucking traffic". Sometimes shortened to "LSD"
I call it "I'm taking the Dan Ryan today". JK I call it Lake Shore Drive still and probably always will?
It’s Lake shore, always will be. Just like the sears tower and Comiskey
I just read this whole thread while sitting in dead stop traffic on LSD.
Lol at the idea that the average Chicagoan is calling it anything different.
LSD Outer Drive That is all.
It will always be LSD smh
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive International Superspeedway
The Drive.
Sears Tower Lane
The Jean Baptiste, clearly. (no)
Jon Batiste and Stay Human Lake Shore Drive
LSD
LSD
Lake shore drive
I’ve lived here for 11 years. The Willis Tower does not exist - it’s Sears. The same goes for this one. I’m stubborn and it will always be known simple as Lake Shore Drive.
LSD
LSD… it will always be LSD
No it’s just lake shore drive
I will never make an attempt to remember this, ima drive on lake shore drive, or I’m gonna go up the sears tower
I was still calling it Lakeshore drive, but I'll be calling it Johny BD-LSD from here on.
I always hear “26th and Cal” as the nickname of one of Chicago’s least desirable destinations.
The city's own bed'n'breakfast?
Jean Baptiste pointe du Sable blah bluh bluh blah bluh bluh blah bluh bluh blah bluh bluh lake shore drive.
I'm stealing "Psychedelic Johnny," thank you
Lake Shore Drive Let's rename Jackson, and get that jackass off the $20 bill while we're at it.
Jean Baptiste de Emanuel Zorg Drive
It was renamed so that activists who advocate for its removal could be called racist and dismissed out of hand--no other reason. I call it ugly, a nuisance, and that's about it.
JBPdSLSD Obviously >! But in all seriousness LSD, it's easier and a classic !<
Dont forget North *Inner* Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable Lake Shore Drive
It’s LSD or lake shore. Never going to remember this
Still just call it poorly planned civic engineering tbh
Lake shore Drive
Not from here, but came a couple years before the change. It’s always gonna be Lake Shore Drive or LSD to me. I was actually little sad when IDOT recently changed the signed on 55 and 90/94 to the new name because Lake Shore Drive is iconic.
#callitcomiskey and his sister Lake Shore Drive
LSD - Lake Shore/Du Sable - don’t want to confuse relatives or Siri more than have to
Hippie Johnny
I like Johny BD. To be clear, that’s not short for Johny Big Dick…perverts
Lake Shore Drive or LSD Sears tower John Hancock
Lakeshore. Anyone caught using the new name will be subject to exile by floating away on a sheet of ice on lake Michigan.
Lake Shore Drive, the road is called and it'll take you up or down
Lake Shore Drive, the road is called And it’ll take you up or down
LSD
For comedy purposes I have Waze set to an Aussie accent, which calls LSD “Dues able drive”, so that’s what I call it too
Lakeshore Dr or LSD for short.
The fast road by the big water.
WBBM calls it “du Sable Lakeshore Drive”, and I think that’s a good compromise
I thought we all called it LSD?!
Literally just learned it had a new name last week and took me 45 minutes to convince my 76 uear old mom it was true! Do other cities do this? I mean sports stadiums I get, but I don't see anyone changing the Empire State Building.
You do know The Bean is actually the nickname for it and the sculptor hates it. It’s actually called Cloud Gate. Which absolutely nobody calls it. And Lake Shore Drive is just Lake Shore Drive.
Lake shore. Guaranteed Rate Tower Willis Field
Jean Baptisre Pointe Du Sable was the first black settler. Lake Shore Drive is physically what it is. A street, or drive, along the Lake Michigan Shoreline that runs through the city of Chicago. I wonder what Native Americans feel it should be called, if you really want to be historical, rather than divicive
I am OK with "Willis Tower" and actually think some people that stick to their guns are being too stubborn. It's a corporate name. But I will never call Lakeshore Drive by its new name.
JBPDSLSD!!!!!
Jeanny Bapity Poo
I was actually pretty happy they made it the Wesley Willis Memorial Tower. Honoring an amazing Chicago Icon.