Tue. June 25, 2019
Chicago, IL -
The parade theme this year is "Stonewall 50: "MILLIONS of MOMENTS of PRIDE."
The parade is scheduled for Sunday, June 30, 2019 at noon stepping off from Broadway and Montrose in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. The parade will then travel south on Broadway; then south on Halsted; then east on Belmont; then south on Broadway; then east on Diversey to Cannon Drive. Crowd estimates last year topped nearly one million people.
2019 Pride Parade line of march; registered entries: Organizations & Local & National Businesses w/ their LGBT Employee Groups
1 Intro–Banner/Color Guard (Scouts for Equality) – car/walkers
2 Mayor Lori Lightfoot (Honorary Grand Marshal)– float/walkers
3 Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker w/Illinois Human Right Commission/Jim Bennet – walkers
4 Molly Pinta (Youth Grand Marshal) & Joel Hall (Legacy Grand Marshal) & Joel Hall Dancers and Center – float/walker
5 Marge Summit (Legacy Grand Marshal) vehicle
6 James Flint (Legacy Grand Marshal) on Baton float. – 6A Indivisible Aurora – walkers
7 Nettelhorst School – golf cart/walkers and 7A Near North Montessori School – bus/walkers
8 Erie Family Health Center and 8A - Youth Services Pride Youth Program – walkers
9 Free Mom Hugs – float/walkers and 9A - Lycee Francais de Chicago – walkers and 9B - Ashe Emet School reps – walkers
10 Francis W. Parker School and 10A - Catherine Cook School – jeep w/walkers
11 American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER), Jesse Brown VA LGBTQ/A Association & Hines VA. - car/flag/walkers
12 Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles – band/van
13 Lesbian Gay Police Assoc./GOAL/Police/FBI – float/car/truck
14 Chicago Gender Society and Chi-Chapter – float
15 Heels and Hardhats Contracting & union reps – dump truck/trailer
16 Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus – walkers
17 Folia Brasil – dancers and 17A – Grab Magazine - float
18 Center on Halsted and U.S. Bank (U.S. Bank - LBGT SPECTRUM Employee Resource Group) – float/walkers
19 PFLAG – trolley w/walkers and 19A - AARP – trolley
20 City Officials & City Department Reps. – walkers
21 Equality Illinois – float/walkers
22 Lambda Legal – float/walkers
23 County Officials & County Department Reps. – walkers
24 Asians & Friends Chicago – float/walkers
25 Trikone Chicago – trolley/walkers
26 State Officials & Department Reps.
27 ABC 7 Chicago – float/van/walkers
28 Obama Foundation – double decker bus/walkers
29 Federal & International Officials and Departments
30 Chicago White Sox – van/walkers
31 Project VIDA – truck/walkers 31A – Woodstock Pride - walkers
32 Entry Lines Up on Sheridan (from Montrose to Sunnyside) – Motorcycles incl. Organized Chaos Chgo, Bikes&Mics, Chgo Gay Bikers, Fitness Formula Clubs
33 Entry Lines Up on Sheridan (from Sunnyside to Wilson) – King H.S marching band and "Dance Force" by Chicago Defender Charities
34 Nissan North America – car/walkers
35 Chicago Teachers Union Local 1 – trolley/walkers and 35A - Chicago House – walkers
36 Steve Quick Jeweler/Chicago PrideGuard float/walkers and 36A - Rainbow SIG Chicago Area Mensa – float /walkers
37 Balloons by Tommy, LLC – bus/walkers
38 Rush (Rush LGBTQ Leadership Council and Rush Pride) – float/walkers
39 BP Products North America, Inc. (BP Pride Business Resource Group) – trolley/walkers
40 Nexus Radio, G2 Crowd – float
41 LGBT Chamber Commerce of IL – bus/walkers and 41A - MB Financial Bank (soon; 53rd bank) – trolley/walkers
42 JLL (BUILDING PRIDE LGBT + BUSINESS NETWORK) – float/walkers
43 Business Partners, The Chamber for Uptown – float/walkers
44 Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce – float/walkers
45 PNC Bank – vehicle/walkers
46 Howard Brown Health – float/walkers and 46A - MAC AIDS fund/MAC Cosmetics – walkers
47 Chicago Area HIV Integrated Service Council – trolley/walkers and 47A - Gateway Foundation – walkers
48 AIDS Healthcare Foundation – Out of the Closet – vehicle/walkers and 48A - TPAN – vehicle/walkers
49 Chicago Gay Hockey Association and 49A - Chicago Dragons Rugby – truck/walkers
50 Diageo (Diageo ERG Rainbow Network) – bus/walkers
51 Comcast Xfinity Incl.: NBC 5 Chicago & Telemundo Chicago (OUT Chicago at Comcast) – Float
52 US99 & Second City Outlaws – float/walkers
53 Sidetrack & Chicago Spirit Brigade – float/walkers
54 DocuSign and Gerber/Hart Library – trolley/walkers
55 Univision Chicago – float/walkers
56 Roscoe's Tavern – flatbed/walkers
57 Robert Jeffrey Hair Studio – float/walkers
58 Splash Chicago – float/walkers
59 WGN Television – float/walkers
60 WGN Radio w/Jewel Foods/Jewel-Osco – float/walkers
61 Chicago Boyz – double decker bus/walkers
62 Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches – panel truck/walkers
63 UNITY (Ernst & Young's LGBTA Network) - walkers and 63A - AIA Chicago LGBTQ+ Alliance – walkers
64 Elmhurst College – mini bus/walkers
65 Athletic Alliance of Chicago – float/walkers
66 EntryLinesUp:Sunnyside St: : Northwestern/Taiwanese SA; UC, ISU LGBT Alumni, Purdue NW, NIU, Carthage College
67 Chicago Smelts – float/walkers
68 Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association (CMSA) – float/walkers
69 Chicago Cubs – float/walkers
70 Temple Sholom of Chicago – Beth Emet Synagogue/Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation Evanston/Beth Hillel Bnai Emunah Wilmette/Congregation Beth Shalom Northbrook/Keshet – float/walkers
71 JCC Chicago – float and 71A - Anti-Defamation League/USY/Consulate General Israel/USY – walkers
72 Walgreen Co & LEGACY PROJECT (Walgreens PRIDE Alliance: LGBTQ Business Resource Group) – truck/walkers
73 Human Rights Campaign – vehicle/walkers
74 PayPal & PRIDE FILMS & PLAYS (PayPal Pride, represented by Braintree & Venmo) – truck/walkers
75 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center – trolley/walkers
76 ACLU of Illinois & Planned Parenthood – trolley/walkers
77 McGrath Lexus of Chicago – float w/walkers
78 Chicago Gay Men's Chorus & Uber (Uber Pride Employee Resource Group) – trolley/walkers
79 Chicagoland Alliance of Museums with Pride (CAMP) and 79A - Civis Analytics – walkers
80 Broadway In Chicago – float/walkers
81 T-Mobile & (T-Mobile PRIDE & ALLIES Network) – float/walkers
82 Mars Wrigley Confectionery/WC Gay Chorus & WC Treble Quire – float/walkers
83 Thresholds – float/walkers
84 Neighborhood Loans – float
85 National Gay Pilots Association – flatbed/walkers
86 United Airlines, Inc. (EQUAL) – float/walkers
87 American Airlines (PRIDE Chicago EBRG) – golf cart mini plane/walker
88 Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants – vehicle w/walkers
89 Boeing Company (Boeing Employee Pride Alliance [BEPA]) – float/walkers
90 Orbitz (GUIDE) – vehicle/walkers
91 Evanston Subaru in Skokie – Subaru/walkers
92 Davis Elen Advertising Inc. c/o McDonald's USA (McDonald's National Pride Employee Business Network) – float/walkers
93 WXRT (Entercom Radio Chicago)/Tito's Handmade Vodka/Four Seasons Heating/Air Conditioning/Blue Man Group – float/walkers
94 SEIU Illinois – float/walkers
95 Local 881 United Food and Commercial Workers – float/walkers
96 UNITE HERE Local 1 – float/walkers
97 Chicago Fire Soccer Club & Section 8 Chicago NFP – firetruck/walkers
98 WGCI 107.5 & Absolute - float
99 AT&T and League at AT&T – float/walkers
100 KISS FM 103.5 + AbbVie- float/walkers
101 Chicago Northside Toyota – double decker bus/walkers
102 ComEd (PRIDE Employee Resource Group) – bucket truck/walkers
103 Weigel Broadcasting Co. – double decker bus/walkers
104 WCPT 820 & Team Hochberg – vehicle/walkers
105 Chicago Women In Trades – truck/walkers
106 The MIX 101.9 – float/walkers
107 ForeskinPride.org – panel van/walkers
108 La Casa Norte w/Bank of America (Bank of America LGBT+ Pride Chicago) – float/walkers
109 Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Pride Network) – float/walkers
110 Capital One Services, LLC (OutFront: LGBTQ+) – trolley
111 Chicago Leather/Fetish Pride – flatbed truck/walkers
112 Fox 32 Chicago – float/walkers
113 Agency EA – bus/walkers
114 Veterinary Specialty Center – float/walkers
115 Gerber Collision & Glass – van/walkers
116 LA Tan – float/walkers
117 B96 – float/walkers
118 Gay Liberation Network – pickup truck/walkers
119 Macy's – trolley/walkers and 119A - Bloomingdale's – walkers
120 Facebook Chicago – float/walkers
121 Salesforce (OUTFORCE) – float/walkers
122 Chicago Bulls & BMO Harris Bank (BMO PRIDE US) – float/walkers
123 Starbucks – Midwest Region Pride Network – flatbed/walkers
124 KPMG LLP (PRIDE@KPMG) – double decker bus/walkers
125 PepsiCo (EQUAL) – double decker bus/walkers
126 Johnson & Johnson (OPEN&OUT ERG/Care with pride/family equality council) – vehicle/walkers
127 JPMorgan Chase Bank & Co./About Face Theatre (PRIDE Illinois) – float/walkers
128 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (PRIDE ALLIANCE) – float/walkers
129 WW Grainger – vehicle /walkers and 129A - Nordstrom – walkers
130 Astellas Pharma US, Inc. (TAO - Together as One) – float/walkers
131 Navigant (NAVPride) – float/walkers
132 Kraft Heinz (LGBT Business Resource Group) – company mobile/walkers
133 FCB Chicago – float/walkers
134 Accenture LLP (LGBT ERG - Employee Resource Group) – double decker bus/walkers
135 Baxter Healthcare Corporation - (Baxter EQUALITY NETWORK) – trolley/walkers
136 Groupon – trolley/walkers and 136A - Liberty Mutual (PRIDE at Liberty) walkers
137 Siemens/Siemens Healthineers (Siemens PRIDE NETWORK) – trolley/walkers
138 CME Group (PRIDE [Promoting Rights, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality]) – float/walkers
139 Discover Fin. Svc. (Pride LGBTQ and Allies Network) – trolley/walkers and 139A - Sephora (SephoraPrism) – walkers
140 Microsoft Corp. (Gleam, Out@In) – trolley /walkers and140A - Zurich North America (PrideZ ERG) walkers
141 Deloitte LLP (DELOITTE CHICAGO INCLUSION COUNCIL) – float/walkers-
142 Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. (TAKE PRIDE) – trolley/walkers
143 Alight Solutions (Lincolnshire Chicago Pride BRG) – trolley/walkers
144 Volkswagen Group of America (VW Diversity Group ERG) – vehicle/walkers
145 Gap Inc. (Gap Gear [GAY EMPLOYEES ALLIES & RESOURCES]) – trolley/walkers
146 Anheuser-Busch In-Bev (Bud Light) – float/walkers
147 Goose Island Beer Co. – bus/walkers
148 Tyson Foods (Tyson Foods PRIDE NETWORK) – float/walkers
149 Allstate (Allstate PRIDE) – float/walkers
150 United Way of Metropolitan Chicago (United Pride) – float/walkers
151 TD Ameritrade (DIVERSITY & INCLUSION) – float/walkers
152 Huntington Bank (LGBTA NETWORK) – ice cream van/walkers
153 Tesla, Inc. (LGBTQ at Tesla) – vehicle/walkers
154 Peapod, LLC – truck/walkers and 154A - AIG – walkers
155 Verizon Wireless (GLOBE) – walkers
156 Northrop Grumman Corporation – trolley
157 Lyft (LYFT OUT) – jeep/walkers
158 Hiltons of Chicago – vehicle/walkers
159 Alcala's Western Wear – float
160 Google – bus/walkers
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