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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
Timelapse footage shows luminous dye being poured into the water on Saturday, 11 March, as part of the city's celebrations of Irish culture. Other festivities, including the South Side Irish ...
The West Side is one of the three major sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is joined by the North and South Sides. The West Side contains communities that are of historical and cultural importance to the history and development of Chicago. On the flag of Chicago, [1] the West Side is represented by the central white ...