Billie Warren, a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, leads a discussion with attendees before Lee's four-mile audio tour along Chicago's lakefront on June 10, 2023. - Lou Foglia/Chicago Tribune/TNS
CHICAGO — “What we are going to do is go for a walk.” JeeYeun Lee, artist, activist, creator of social-justice-minded walking tours along Lake Michigan, stood in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art holding a microphone. Its cord curled over the concrete and ended at a small portable speaker at her feet. She waved a pamphlet. “Everyone should have one of these,” she said. “If you look at the map on the cover, that’s from 1902.” It showed where the shoreline of Lake Michigan used to be. It used to be where Lee stood now. She pointed east. “Everything between here to the lake is actually land...
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