{"id":633343,"date":"2026-09-23T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633343\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:32:08","slug":"yes-latest-chicago-appearance-was-at-street-naming-ceremony-for-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633343\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye&#8217;s Latest Chicago Appearance Was at Street Naming Ceremony for His Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesource.com\/2026\/09\/08\/ye-announces-shows-for-houston-dallas-and-phoenix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ye<\/a> was back in <a href=\"https:\/\/thesource.com\/2026\/09\/10\/ye-breaks-soldier-field-single-night-revenue-record-after-massive-chi-town-homecoming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> on Tuesday, celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/thesource.com\/2026\/08\/28\/kanye-wests-former-chief-of-staff-detained-by-ice-in-louisiana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his<\/a> late mother, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesource.com\/2023\/08\/07\/kanye-west-donda-model-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Donda West<\/a>, who had the intersection of 78th street and South Shore Drive named in her honor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesource.com\/2026\/08\/31\/ye-2026-world-tour-one-million-fans-new-orleans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ye<\/a> appeared in all Black to accept the honor, celebrating Donda as a \u201cchampion for Black creativity and intellectual excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. West was a pillar in the Chicago education community serving for 30 years as the head of the English department.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the moment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ye was back in Chicago on Tuesday, celebrating his late mother, Dr. Donda West, who had the intersection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[268752,268941,93,61,60,26614,278,26615],"class_list":["post-633343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-donda-west","tag-dr-donda-west","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kanye-west","tag-music","tag-ye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}