Since she was a little girl, Laverne Kirby had never missed a Bud Billiken Parade — until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the South Side tradition for the first time. On Saturday, K… ...

The Bud Billiken Parade and Festival will kick off back-to-school season on Saturday, Aug. 14. ... Bud Billiken Parade To Return This Year After Being Canceled Due To Pandemic In 2020.

The annual Bud Billiken Parade will send an array of floats down Chicago's streets Saturday morning. ... and this summer is the first time since 2020 that participants will march the full, ...

These are all a part of the Bud Billiken Parade in Chicago. CHICAGO — Certain iconic imagery brings to mind traditional American summer activities: the smell of hamburgers cooking on a grill, ...

Float-makers are nearly ready for the annual Bud Billiken Parade this weekend. ... and this summer is the first time since 2020 that participants will march the full, ...

We only missed one year in 2020,” said Myiti Sengstacke-Rice, whose great-grand-uncle Robert Sengstacke Abbott started both the Chicago Defender newspaper and the Bud Billiken Parade back in 1929.

Certain iconic imagery brings to mind traditional American summer activities: the smell of hamburgers cooking on a grill, marching bands with drum lines and kids catching candy thrown from colorful ...

Nicknamed “The Bud,” the parade has been a back-to-school celebration and showcase for Chicago’s talented young people since 1929. For four generations, the Sengstacke family has organized ...

At the 95th Bud Billiken Parade, the South Side Home Movie Project will feature archival footage from the Ramon Williams Collection.

The Morgan Park High School Marching Band in the 2017 Bud Billiken parade, Chicago, Saturday, August 12. ... “We only missed one parade, and that was during the pandemic in 2020. ...

The Bud Billiken Parade is a celebrated South Side Chicago tradition. But, this summer, a team that has been part of the parade for more than two decades, might not be able to participate. The Chi ...

First held in 1929, the Bud Billiken Parade is the largest African American parade in the United States, according to its organizers. Every year on the second Saturday of August, ...