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19 Ιουλ 2021 · In 1968, 40 floats, 12 brass bands, eight drum and bugle corps, and 100 cars participated in the parade sponsored by the Chicago Defender Charities. A feature of the parade was marching on the newly-named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic (also known as The Bud Billiken Day Parade) is an annual parade held since 1929 [5] in Chicago, Illinois. The Bud Billiken Day Parade is the largest African-American parade in the United States. [6]
1916 Cochrane and Matheson forest fire 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) in size in Ontario takes about 223 lives. Leads to improved techniques and legislation for prevention and control of forest fires.
Chicago celebrates St. Patrick’s Day. The marchers lining up along Michigan Avenue stretch from Van Buren to Sixteenth Street. Crowds of onlookers watch the parade pass, and everyone is wearing at least a touch of green.
In the parade were not only two horse-drawn engines from the Chicago Fire Department, but also an 1867 engine sent to Chicago in 1871 from the northern Illinois town of Harvard. It sprayed water on an appreciative crowd of spectators estimated at fifty thousand.
For more than 24 hours, the fire burned through the heart of Chicago, killing 300 people and leaving one-third of the city's population homeless. The "Great Rebuilding" was the effort to construct a new, urban center.
26 Ιουν 2022 · A spectacular daylong fire on July 31, 1985, destroyed the historic Arlington Park Race Track grandstand and clubhouse. The track still ran the Arlington Million less than a month later.
