Overview
- The parade will step off at 11 a.m. Sunday from Grace and Broadway and follow a two-mile route south on Broadway, south on Halsted, east on Belmont back to Broadway, then south to Diversey ending at Cannon Drive.
- Organizers posted extensive no-parking zones that begin as early as 2 a.m. and street-closure and staging restrictions that start between about 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., with streets expected to reopen later in the afternoon.
- City safety officials said there is no actionable intelligence on threats and the Chicago Police Department plus private security, including plainclothes officers, will staff the route and staging areas.
- Attendees are urged to use public transit, with the CTA Red and Brown lines expected to be busiest and Metra adding service, while accessible viewing areas, cooling buses and ADA facilities are listed on the parade website; NBC/Telemundo and ABC7 will stream the event live for remote viewers.
- This year’s theme, “Free to Be Proud,” honors earlier activists and highlights ongoing challenges facing LGBTQ+ people, with organizers expecting hundreds of thousands of spectators and naming community grand marshals to lead the celebration.