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May 5, 2024 at 2:58 PM. CHICAGO - A Cinco de Mayo parade that celebrates Mexican heritage in Chicago was disrupted Sunday due to gang violence. The long-running event was scheduled to start near ...
May 6, 2024 at 11:35 AM. CHICAGO - Chicago police arrested dozens of people and recovered three handguns after shots were fired along the Cinco de Mayo parade route in Little Village on Sunday ...
The South Side Irish is the large Irish-American community on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. After 1945, a large-scale movement to the suburbs occurred because of white flight and the steady upward social mobility of the Irish. [1] Although their population has spread out, Irish Americans continue to make up the majority of the ethnic ...
With a reputed 200,000 Irish-Americans living in The Windy City, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Chicago serves up a heck of a St. Patrick's Day parade. First held way back in 1843, nowadays ...
August 10, 2024. Website. budbillikenparade .org. The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic (also known as The Bud Billiken Day Parade) is an annual parade held since 1929 [5] in Chicago, Illinois. The Bud Billiken Day Parade is the largest African-American parade in the United States. Held annually on the city's south side on the second Saturday in ...
The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was an Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. It was the principal rival of the South Side Gang, also known as the Chicago Outfit, the crime syndicate of Italian-Americans Johnny Torrio and Al Capone .
Politicians fanned out across Chicago during a furious final weekend of campaigning, making appearances in St. Patrick’s Day parades, church pulpits and restaurant gatherings as they sought to ...
In 2004, the Northwest Side Irish Parade held its inaugural event in the city's Norwood Park neighborhood, and area with a high proportion of Irish Americans . The parade features over one hundred groups, pipe bands, labor unions, high school bands, Irish dancers, an after party, and over two thousand parade participants.