ABC7 broadcasts live from 51st Annual Chicago Pride Parade

CHICAGO (WLS) — ABC7 celebrates the 51st Annual Chicago Satisfaction Parade with a two-hour, stay parade broadcast, Sunday, June 26, from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Tanja Babich, Hosea Sanders and Jason Knowles host the Chicago Satisfaction Parade broadcast with Knowles capturing the entire motion stay from the road. LGBTQ+ neighborhood advocates be a part of the festivities, together with Cody LaGrow (Emmy Award-winning journalist), Kim Hunt (LGBT Corridor of Fame and Senior Director of AIDS Initiative Chicago), and Joel Corridor (LGBT Corridor of Fame and Chicago dance legend).

The parade can even completely stream on ABC 7’s Linked TV Apps on Amazon Hearth TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku and ABC Information Reside on Hulu.

Scheduled to trip on the ABC7 Chicago float this 12 months are ABC7’s very personal Cheryl Burton, Ryan Chiaverini, Roz Varon, Sarah Schulte, Liz Nagy and Tre Ward.

“ABC7 has supported Satisfaction for nearly twenty years, and we’re thrilled to proceed that dedication with a two-hour stay parade broadcast,” stated John Loafer, president and common supervisor of ABC7 Chicago. “As we have fun cultural inclusion and acceptance, we applaud the colourful LGBTQ+ neighborhood that’s so vital to our metropolis.”

The 51st Annual Satisfaction Parade kicks off in Uptown at Montrose Avenue and North Broadway. The route winds by way of Northside neighborhoods and ends at Diversey Parkway and Sheridan in Lincoln Park. The parade options colourful floats, embellished automobiles, musical expertise, strolling contingents and native authorities officers all in assist of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. This would be the first time in two years the Chicago Satisfaction Parade takes place because the COVID-19 pandemic.

This 12 months’s parade honors Richard Pfeiffer, the coordinator of Chicago Satisfaction Parade since 1974 and beloved member of Chicago’s Homosexual and Lesbian Corridor of Fame. Pfeiffer died on Oct. 6, 2019, however left an enduring legacy within the Chicago LGBTQ+ neighborhood. Underneath his route, the Satisfaction Parade turned one of many most-celebrated occasions in Chicago, drawing crowds of 30-40 individuals deep on streets and over 1 million spectators. Pfeiffer attended Chicago’s very first Satisfaction Parade and held his title as parade coordinator by way of the fiftieth anniversary.

The parade additionally plans to honor Gary G. Chichester, amongst different notable LGBTQ+ neighborhood pioneers. Chichester supplied over 30 years of service to the neighborhood, co-founding the Chicago Homosexual Alliance and creating Chicago’s first homosexual and lesbian neighborhood middle. Chichester’s dedication to illustration led him to domesticate the very first homosexual and lesbian Chicago Satisfaction Parade in 1970.

The annual celebration commemorates the Stonewall Riots, which occurred June 27, 1969, within the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York Metropolis. Chicago’s Satisfaction Parade takes place the identical weekend in the summertime, changing what was as soon as a battle for civil rights with dazzling shows of hope and perseverance.

About ABC7/WLS-TV Chicago

ABC7/WLS-TV Chicago is the No. 1 native information supply and most-watched tv station in Chicago. With top-rated every day newscasts spanning a long time and the most important social media presence out there with greater than 2.6 million Fb followers, ABC7 Eyewitness Information gives breaking information, investigative reporting, climate, politics, site visitors and sports activities within the multiplatform area to Chicago, the suburbs and northwest Indiana. Named Finest Information Operation by the Related Press for 4 consecutive years, ABC 7 Eyewitness Information produces “Chicago Proud,” a collection of options that spotlights on a regular basis heroes in and round Chicago. The station additionally produces the highest-rated New Yr’s Eve particular in Chicago, vacation kickoff particular “The Magnificent Mile Lights Competition,” syndicated to a nationwide viewers, in addition to the award-winning program collection “Our Chicago,” which showcases town’s variety and highlights contributions within the Black, Hispanic, Asian, LGBTQ+ communities, amongst others. Each Friday, Windy Metropolis Weekend, entertains whereas giving Chicagoans all the things they should find out about what’s taking place within the metropolis. ABC 7 is the one Chicago station producing and broadcasting parades representing Chicago’s wealthy cultural historical past. Along with producing city halls centered on present social points, the station has a protracted and proud custom of broadcasting political candidate debates conserving Chicago’s voters knowledgeable. ABC7’s outreach efforts embrace annual partnerships with the Pink Cross for life-saving blood drives, one of many greatest one-day drives within the nation and, most just lately, spearheading an effort to lift greater than $1.5 million for space meals pantries.

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