The parade was officially cancelled at 3pm, as attendees took shelter in nearby bars and restaurants or crowded onto packed trains and buses. The gay pride parade has roots in the Windy City going back to 1972 and has taken place in the Boystown area of the city until this year, when it was canceled over the coronavirus. Unfortunately, the celebration was cut short around 2:30pm when Chicago Police postponed the parade and cleared the route in anticipation of severe weather that was scheduled to pass through Chicago. Organizers insisted that the rally held in the city’s West Side Lakeview neighborhood was an attempt to reclaim the grassroots efforts to push gay pride, according to ABC 7.
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