Bishop Ford
May 6, 2009
Bishop Ford/ bish UP ford/ n. The 10-mile stretch of Interstate 94 on the South Side and South Suburbs that was called the Calumet Expy. until 1996, when it was renamed in honor of Bishop Louis Henry Ford. The former street preacher came to Chicago in 1933 and rose to head the 8.5-million National Church of God in Christ. He died in 1995 at 81. His namesake road is Chicago's only "freeway."