After being cancelled in 2020, Pride in The Park returned as a two-day festival in 2021 with over 30,000 attendees. The inaugural Pride In The Park, held June 2019 in Grant Park in downtown Chicago, drew about 5,500 attendees. Traditionally, the festival-featuring music, food, drag performances and other tributes to LGBTQ culture-occurs in the days leading up to the parade. More after the photo - 2020 Pride in the Park, photo by Steven Koch for. The parade will also coincide with the three-day Pride Fest celebrations, which are tentatively set for October 1–3 this year. This year's date instead marks the opening weekend of LGBTQ History Month in October, and the parade will maintain its usual route through the historically gay Northalsted neighborhood in Lakeview.
The Chicago Pride Parade, which typically draws more than one million attendees to its route in Lakeview and Uptown, is usually held on the last weekend of Pride Month in June in honor of the the Stonewall Rebellion that helped kickstart the gay liberation movement. Chicago Pride Fest Sunday, at 11:00am Northalsted on Halsted Street from Addison to Grace St. From Madrid to Sao Paulo and from NYC to Amsterdam we have all gay events in. Organizers feel the city’s Pride Parade overlooks Black and brown LGBTQ members, adding that they also feel Chicago Pride has too much corporate input.
Chicago's Pride celebrations are being extended past June this year: Following last year's cancelation and uncertainty about whether large events would be possible in 2021, the Chicago Pride Parade is officially returning to Chicago on October 3, as first reported by Block Club Chicago. Details and event dates of all major gay pride festivals around the world.