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August 13, 1969: Chicago ticker-tape parade for the crew of Apollo 11. The three Apollo 11 astronauts rode in ticker-tape parades in their honor in New York and Chicago, with an estimated six million attendees. On the same evening in Los Angeles there was an official state dinner to celebrate the flight, attended by members of Congress, 44 ...
WGN America was an American subscription television network that operated from November 9, 1978 to February 28, 2021. The service was originally uplinked to satellite by United Video Inc. as a national feed of Chicago independent station WGN-TV, making the station's programming available to cable and satellite providers throughout the United States as the second nationally distributed ...
WGN-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW.It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is sister to the company's sole radio property, news/talk/sports station WGN (720 AM).
August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast of the United States, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 USD). August 21 – Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to ...
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The 89th Annual Parade took place on August 11, 2018. [24] BET and Centric premiered the parade on their networks in 2012. [80] On August 8, 2020, WLS-TV aired a television special for the 91st Annual Bud Billiken Parade in place of the 2020 parade which was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. [81] [82] [83] [84]
Authorities say the accused Highland Park, Illinois parade shooter confessed and considered carrying out a second attack in Madison, Wisconsin. CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz reports on the ...
The Chicago Thanksgiving Parade, "Chicago's Grand Holiday Tradition", is an annual parade produced and presented by the Chicago Festival Association (CFA). It began in 1934 and is held in downtown Chicago on State Street , every Thanksgiving morning from 8:00 am until 11:00 am CST.