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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]
An Irish population in this cluster of Midwestern cities hosts an St. Patrick's Day parade. 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, [108] crossing the Centennial Bridge from Rock Island, Illinois into Davenport, Iowa. Being so close to Chicago, this parade ...
In 1999, when the Maple Leafs played on Saint Patrick's Day, they wore green St Patrick's retro uniforms. [citation needed] Some groups, notably Guinness, have lobbied to make Saint Patrick's Day a national holiday. [137] In March 2009, the Calgary Tower changed its top exterior lights to new green CFL bulbs just in time for Saint Patrick's Day ...
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 ...
CHICAGO - The Chicago River turning green kicked off Chicago's St. Patrick's day festivities this morning. Thousands looked on and then stuck around for the annual downtown parade that made its ...
St. Patrick's Day marks the day Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, died in 461, but many of the lively traditions we know today began with Irish Americans. ... while Chicago, famed for dyeing ...
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.
In 2024, St. Patrick's Day falls on Sunday, March 17. ... New York, and Chicago were hosting major celebrations for everyone to take part in over the course of days leading up to March 17. So ...