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Bud Billiken Parade: Largest African American parade in US returns to South Side
CHICAGO (WLS) — The social gathering continues Saturday night at Washington Park, hours after the 93rd Bud Billiken Parade wrapped up earlier within the day
Household and pals are collectively, grilling out and having fun with some music within the park.
The parade is all a part of a convention that is handed down from technology to technology, courting again to 1929.
Wanting again on the historical past of the Bud Billiken Parade
Bands march to the beat, rooster sizzles on the grill and rifles are expertly tossed within the air.
“This has been occurring for a few years, since I used to be a child,” mentioned parade attendee Shaneka Bowman.
The Bud Billiken Parade returned in all its glory, with 1000’s of individuals lining the route.
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Thomas Yancee mentioned his household has been coming to the parade for many years.
“I obtained out right here, like I mentioned, since 7 o’clock this morning they usually name us the rooster household,” he mentioned. “We obtained rooster wings, rooster legs, rooster breasts, rooster thighs.”
The two.5-mile-long celebration is the biggest African-American parade within the nation and celebrates the return of the college 12 months.
Artwork on theMART 2022 that includes Bud Billiken parade artists
It was scaled again final 12 months due to the pandemic.
“To get it again collectively, particularly for one thing like this, is gorgeous,” Yancey mentioned.
“To be outdoors is, like, actually good, like, to even be round,” Shaneka added.
The Bowman household loved watching the parade collectively
“I have been popping out right here when my children had been 6 years previous, now they’re 40,” mentioned Brenda Bowman.
Upholding custom is likely one of the essential causes folks have returned to this celebration on the South Aspect 12 months after 12 months.
Helicopters additionally hovered above as law enforcement officials patrolled the route under, with safety being a prime concern this 12 months following the Fourth of July mass taking pictures in Highland Park.
Nonetheless, the heightened measures did not hamper the parade’s vitality.
To me, it simply form of means bringing the group collectively to observe everybody dance, carry out and provides it their all,” mentioned parade attendee Jada Jones.
The parade’s theme this 12 months was Bud Billiken 365, which celebrates the significance of training day by day of the 12 months.
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FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
WATCH | Highland Park capturing survivor tells her story
“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
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