CHICAGO (WLS) — The sights and sounds of Mexico have been in Chicago as Little Village’s Mexican Independence Day Parade roll down twenty sixth Road Sunday. It was straightforward to neglect that it has been three years because the final time it was held.

“Ever since I can keep in mind, my mother used to deliver me right here after I was little and I feel it is necessary to maintain the traditions going, particularly after the parade was gone for therefore lengthy,” stated paradegoer Lizet Acuña. “So now, it is good to expertise it, now myself as a mother.”

“I grew up on this neighborhood. I like this parade. I used to come back right here on a regular basis,” stated fellow paradegoer Cindy Martinez. “We do not dwell right here anymore. We dwell in Valencia in Spain. We got here out right here to go to the household and are available to the parade. We simply like it and we actually miss Little Village.”

So what if it was a bit wet. For a second, the torrential downpour that preceded the festivities threatened to maintain onlookers away, however proper at midday, as if on cue, the rain subsided and the crowds got here out. Mybe not as quite a few as in earlier editions, however as pleased and energetic as ever.

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“It is actually good. We get pleasure from it. We don’ care. We’re right here to get together,” stated paradegoer Luis Muñoz. “That is the Mexican spirit proper right here.”

“My daughter is half Asian and I am Hispanic, and I feel it is necessary for her to know the place her different half of the roots are,” stated Yasmin Acuña.

Already in its 51st yr, the parade kicked off with a remembrance of the September 11 terrorist assaults 21 years in the past in the present day.

Organized by the Little Village Chamber of Commerce, the Mexican Independence Day Parade is all about preserving traditions, whereas additionally celebrating the lives that numerous immigrants have made for themselves right here in america.

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“All of us come right here with the American dream and folks need to have a profitable life right here however we always remember our roots,” stated Manuel Martinez, with the Little Village Chamber of Commerce.

For those who do need to catch the parade in its entirety, ABC7 will probably be broadcasting it Sunday at 11 p.m.