{"id":6595,"date":"2011-05-12T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2011-05-12T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:53:56","slug":"chicago-mayor-names-street-oprah-winfrey-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6595","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor  Names Street  &#8216;Oprah Winfrey Way&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> now has a street to call her own.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <strong>Mayor Richard Daley<\/strong>, in one of his last official acts before he leaves office next week, stopped by her studio to rename a street outside Harpo Studios where Winfrey tapes her show &#8220;Oprah Winfrey Way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winfrey <\/strong>is widely credited with helping transform a gritty part of the city into a thriving neighborhood, as her beige building with the giant silver &#8216;O&#8217; proved to be a magnet for young professionals and families.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Winfrey<\/strong> is the latest of more than 1,000 celebrities, religious leaders and activists and others who have been honored with street signs in Chicago. <strong>Michael Jordan<\/strong>, <strong>Siskel <\/strong>and<strong> Ebert<\/strong>, <strong>Hugh Hefner <\/strong>and <strong>Frank Sinatra<\/strong> have been honored over the years &#8212; <strong>Sinatra <\/strong>twice as it turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Oprah Winfrey now has a street to call her own. On Wednesday, Mayor Richard Daley, in one of his last official acts before he leaves office next week, stopped by her studio to rename a street outside Harpo Studios where Winfrey tapes her show &#8220;Oprah Winfrey Way.&#8221; Winfrey is widely credited with helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}