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Cheers and Irish tunes rang out across downtown Saturday as thousands of residents and tourists enjoyed the festive St. Patrick’s Day weekend in their traditional Chicago way: watching the ...
The Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band have stepped off every parade since then. In 1980, the Shannon Rovers visited Australia to lead Sydney's St. Patrick's Day Parade and returned to Chicago in time to lead Chicago's Parade - two St. Patrick's Day Parades in opposite corners of the world within a 24-hour period.
Flatfoot 56. Flatfoot 56 is an American Celtic punk band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 2000. Known for their use of Scottish Highland bagpipes, the group performs an Oi! and Celtic punk sound similar to Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly. [1] [2] They have released seven studio albums and seven extended plays; their fifth album, Black Thorn ...
It is "the only bi-state St. Patrick's Day Parade in the USA", according to the St. Patrick's Day Society of the Quad Cities, [109] crossing the Centennial Bridge from Rock Island, Illinois into Davenport, Iowa. Being so close to Chicago, this parade still gathers around 200,000 annually on its historical parade route.
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (Reuters) -Police identified the gunman who killed six people and wounded several others at a Fourth of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park on Monday ...
No one does St. Patrick’s Day quite like Chicago. Ranked as the No. 2 “most Irish” city in America by LawnStarter with the most St. Patrick’s Day events besides, Chicagoans don’t mess ...
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 ...
The tradition began in 1962, when members of the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local Union dumped 100lb (45kg) of dye into the river. Chicago River glows green as city prepares to celebrate St ...