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Of the two Chicago parades, the other being in downtown, the South Side Irish Parade was the more raucous occasion. The 2009 parade was presumably the last parade. On March 25, 2009, the South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee announced that they were not planning to stage a parade in its present form in March 2010. [2]
Auburn Gresham, most commonly referred to simply as Gresham, is one of the 77 official community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois.It is located on the far south side of the city and was the original location of the South Side Irish Parade before it was relocated to the adjoining Beverly neighborhood immediately southwest.
Western Avenue also played host to the South Side Irish Parade. Held yearly on the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day, along Western between 103rd and 115th Street in the Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods, it was the city's largest neighborhood parade, drawing hundreds of thousands of revelers annually. [3] [4]
The homegrown South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade, still going strong since two best buddies started it in 1979, will take over Western Avenue between 103rd and 115th Streets in Beverly and ...
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 parade, which was founded in 1979, was at one time said to be the largest Irish neighborhood St. Patrick's celebration in the world outside of Dublin, Ireland, [49] and was—until being scaled back in 2012—actually larger than Chicago's other St. Patrick's Day parade in the Loop. The South Side parade became such an event that it was ...
Color guard and pipers marching in Chicago's South Side Irish parade. Although the Irish are present throughout the city of Chicago, the South Side neighborhoods of Beverly, Bridgeport, Morgan Park, and Mount Greenwood have long had strong Irish-Catholic populations as do the adjacent suburbs of Blue Island, Alsip, Merrionette Park, and Oak ...
Chicago Department of Human Resource float in the 1973 parade. Photo by John H. White. Barack Obama float for 2004 U.S. Senate race in the 2004 parade. Miss Black Illinois in the 2004 parade. U.S. Navy band marches in the 2008 parade. Anti-violence group for a Chicago high school in the 2008 parade. Hillcrest High School marching band in the ...