Black Cowboys! Roll Em... Roll em.. Roll em!
Lots of Diversity at BB Day 08!
Peace!
Tyler Perry! Alright now!
4th Ward Alderperson Toni Preckwinckle
Fashion Statements are always made on BB Day!
5, 6, 7, 8!
Global Peace!
Summer in Chi town is Snowballs on Bud Biliken Day! Heaven!
All photos by Aki Antonia
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Filled with snowballs, bar-b-que, pickles, politicians,
marching bands from Chicago and all over the country,
drill teams, beautiful majorettes,
African dancers on stilts, motorcyclists, Black Cowboys on horses,
Chicago House music crews, movie stars,
musical performers and fantastic floats....
The Bud Biliken Day Parade
is always a treat to see in Bronzeville.
Parade Route: 35th and M L King Drive to Washington Park
Time: 10:00 am
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
This year, 2009 marks the 80th Anniversary of the parade and picnic.
It was created by the Chicago Defender newspaper and is known as
one of the largest African-American parades in the country.
Families from the Bronzeville Community turn out early in the morning to line the parade route on King Drive.
Vendors and family picnics quickly fill up both side drives of the
large street that was once called Grand Boulevard.
The Bud Biliken parade also marks the effort to encourage students
to get ready to go back to school.
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