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Since 1867, Brooklyn, New York, has held an annual Memorial Day parade which it claims to be the nation's oldest. Grafton, West Virginia, and Ironton, Ohio have also had an ongoing parade since 1868. However, the Memorial Day parade in Rochester, Wisconsin, predates both the Doylestown and the Grafton parades by one year (1867). [78] [79]
According to initial reports, 82 people were shot, 19 fatally, in Chicago over the May 30–31 weekend. The weekend surpassed the previous May 23–24 weekend, which was the most deadly Memorial Day weekend in Chicago since 2015 with 49 individuals shot in total and 9 deaths, becoming the most deadly weekend of the year to that date. Over half ...
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The Bud Billiken Day Parade is the largest African-American parade in the United States. [6] Held annually on the city's south side on the second Saturday in August, [7] [8] the parade route travels on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive through the Bronzeville and Washington Park [9] neighborhoods. At the end of the parade, in the historic Washington ...
In 1967, Congress made Memorial Day an official federal holiday — a paid day off — and a few years later, in 1971, lawmakers declared the holiday would be observed on the last Monday in May ...
Memorial Day was officially established as a federal holiday in 1971, but the tradition of honoring fallen soldiers began over a century prior. Originally deemed Decoration Day, the first Memorial ...
The 90th annual Chicago Thanksgiving Parade kicks off Thursday morning. The parade – featuring marching bands, floats, equestrian units and performers – travels up State Street from Ida B ...