Chicago’s annual Bud Billiken parade brought joyful noise to Bronzeville Saturday afternoon as lifelong attendees, new arrivals and Chicago Public Schools families alike celebrated the start of back-to-school season.
The two-mile procession down Martin Luther King Drive in historic Bronzeville ended in Washington Park, where sponsors provided free backpacks, school supplies, haircuts and hair braiding. About 300,000 people attended this year’s parade.
Bridges has been coming to the parade every year since she was seven. As a child, Bridges marched in the parade with her Girl Scout Troupe. Other honorary grand marshals this year included Mayor Brandon Johnson, Pier 31 restaurateur Nikki Hayes and My Block My Hood My City founder Jahmal Cole.Cole and My Block My Hood My City inspired this year’s theme, Parading in Peace, Block By Block.Following large political contingents and a float of drummers representing the University of Chicago Urban Health Initiative, the Empire Dance Company was the first set of performers to dance their way down King Drive.
Known as “The Bud,” the parade was established in 1929 by Robert Sengstacke Abbott, who is known as the father of Black journalism in Chicago. Abbott founded the Chicago Defender, a historically Black newspaper, in 1905.The paper’s early coverage played a significant role in encouraging the migration of Black residents from southern states to Chicago. It also included a children’s section, which evolved into a youth social club and ultimately into the annual Bud Billiken parade.
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