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MORE PARADES!
see also MORE MINIATURES for MORE details on this piece
"More Parades" for the exhibit "No More Parades: Interrupted Joy," January 16-31, 2026 @ Elephant Room Gallery (704 S Wabash Avenue in Chicago). Opening Reception on Friday, January 16, 2026 from 6 to 9pm.
After a bunch of research (looking through the Tribune, Sun Times, Wikipedia, Newberry Library, and Chicago History Museum Archives), some of the Chicago parades I am including in this piece are (images link to source):
Haymarket (1886)
2 May 1992
Polish Constitution Day Parade (since 1891)
20 June 1992
Serbian Unity Parade (since 1893)
Parade with Camel (World's Columbian Exposition, 1893) - from wikipedia and the Newberry Library
Suffrage Parade (7 June 1916)
St. Jude Memorial March (established circa 1932)
Thanksgiving Parade (est. c. 1934)
Memorial Day (30 May 1937 and aftermath)
11 June 1966
Puerto Rican Day Parade (est. 1966)
Chicago Pride (est. c. 1970)
Columbus Day protest / counter-parade (c. 1970)
South Side Irish parade (est. c. 1979) (photo by Eileen Murphy circa 1990, private collection)
St. Patrick's Day Parade, downtown
September 1992
Mexican Independence Day Parade
Cows on Parade (1999)
Arts in the Dark parade (est. 2014)
Bud Billiken Parade (est. 1929)
13 August 1977
Chicago Teacher's Union March (2012, 2019)
Lunar New Year Parade, Chinatown (private collection)
9 February 1986
Argyle Lunar New Year Parade (since 1981)
Apsáalooke Women and Warriors Parade (UChicago, March 2020)
Memorial Day Parade (since 1926?)
No Kings (October 2025)
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (circa 2022)
Black Lives Matter
Labor Day
Temperance Parade (26 September 1908) - Newberry Library
Greek Independence Day Parade
New World Patriotism Day Parade
Chicago Bears Super Bowl Parade (1 January 1986)
White Sox
Cubs
4th of July
Apollo 11, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, and Apollo 16 Parades
Croatian-American Parade
Torchlight Parade
"Say No To Drugs" Parade
River Parade
Venetian Night Parade
Fire Prevention Parade
Chicago Disability Pride Parade (est. 2003)
Parade on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (4 April 1982)
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
---- work in progress, november 2025 ---
in my 2003 yearbook, as my senior quote, i wrote "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade i though they said throw a ticker tape parade." so there you go, the chicago tradition persists.
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