Overview
- The parade will begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 28, following a roughly two-mile route that starts near Sheridan and Broadway, moves south on Broadway, turns onto Halsted and finishes near Diversey.
- City officials and parade organizers have installed physical barriers, shortened the route and reduced the number of parade entries to control crowd flow and access.
- The Chicago Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management and Communications are staffing extra shifts and filling days off to provide a visible response across the route.
- Organizers will deploy medical stations and cooling buses and are urging people to stay hydrated as temperatures are expected to climb, while NBC Chicago and Telemundo Chicago will stream the event for viewers who stay home.
- The event, themed “Free to Be Proud,” will feature about 150 floats and three grand marshals and is expected to draw hundreds of thousands, a scale that will strain transit and neighborhood streets and shape city operations for the day.