The Pride Parade and the festival are typically held separately on different dates in June commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings of 1969.Ĭoordinator of the 2021 parade Tim Frye announced that organizers were waiting for municipal guidance. Meanwhile, organizers of Chicago’s annual LGBTQ Pride Parade have applied for a parade permit and announced that it could be held late summer, pushing it back a little to give more people the chance to receive a vaccine and the city extra time to recover. #chicago #gaychicago #lgbtchicago #chicagoprideparade #pride2021 #boystown #northalsted /6AMei9haN9 Organizers of the Chicago Pride Parade this week applied for a parade permit, signaling hope for a possible return in 2021. “In all of these gatherings as more and more people get vaccinated, if all of the adults are fully vaccinated we are not concerned about gatherings,” said Dr. Arwady said, “If you’re planning a 200 person wedding I think by this summer that would broadly be something that you would be able to do… Especially if you do it outside, that really decreases the risk for everybody.”Įarlier in the live Q&A, Arwady predicted that “by late April to early May, at least half of Chicagoans will have been able to get that first dose of vaccine, and that may be even faster.” This would consequently remove city concern about gatherings and large events if the majority of the City was vaccinated by summer. Allison Arwady, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, optimistically revealed that weddings will likely be able to go ahead this summer. In a live virtual Q&A held on Tuesday, Dr.
It’s been three months since the first COVID-19 vaccine went into arms in Chicago. With vaccines being widely distributed and the test positivity rate recently falling to the lowest it has been since COVID-19 first hit Chicago, weddings, festivals, and the city’s annual LGBTQ Pride Parade are all possible this summer.įolks, Chicago has officially administered 1 million doses at city sites. Various officials have confirmed that, despite a very slight increase in cases over the last several days, by summer we should be heading back to some kind of normalcy. “You’re going to be able to have a wedding in the way you want to have a wedding.”